It Takes a Team

It takes a team: CanIMPACT: Canadian Team to Improve Community-Based Cancer Care along the Continuum.

Cancer patients rely on good coordination of care between their healthcare providers and their cancer specialists throughout their cancer journey. However, there are often problems of communication, continuity, and coordination of care that can lead to suboptimal care and anxiety for patients and their families, as well as inefficiency within the healthcare system. We are a pan-Canadian team of...

It takes the time that it takes.

It was five days before my first Christmas in Perth, Australia, and our family had begun to arrive the night before. As the rest of household slept, I quickly threw on a skirt and tank top and left to attend the memorial service for one of my study participants, a 57-year old Anglican minister who had died from motor neurone disease (MND). Though I feared I would be late, I could see people mil...

It takes a village.

Iknow what you’re thinking—“it takes a village” is a hackneyed phrase, and what is it doing in P&T? Perhaps you missed a critically important report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) last winter on an approach for preventing and controlling hypertension.1 It certainly appears that it does take a village to manage high blood pressure in the U.S. As our readers probably know, nearly 73 million...

It Takes a Network : Cooperative

Accurate and low-cost sensor cooperative localization is a critical requirement for the deployment of wireless sensor networks in a wide variety of applications. Sensors must be inexpensive and energy efficient devices, and sensor networks must be scalable from dozens to millions of devices. Localization methods must conform to these requirements and achieve a desired accuracy (from centimeters...

Immunotherapy: it takes a village.