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| Sherilyn Houle, Finlay McAlister, Cynthia Jackevicius, Anderson Chuck, Ross Tsuyuki
BACKGROUND: Pay-for-performance (P4P) is increasingly touted as a means to improve health care quality.
PURPOSE: To evaluate the effect of P4P remuneration targeting individual health careproviders.
Speaker Biographies Keynote Speaker Mr. Don DrummondFormer Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group Don Drummond is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at TD Financial Group. He retired from TD to his current role as Matthews Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the School of Policy Studies at Queens University. Prior to joining…
6 December 2012Edmonton, Alberta Introductory Remarks – Government of Alberta Honourable Fred Horne, Minister of Healthhttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/56013748 Keynote Presentation Mr. Don Drummond, Former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Grouphttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/56036522 Panel Discussion ModeratorDr. Annette Trimbee,…
Biographies Stirling Bryan National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Experience with Using the EQ-5D in Economic Analysis Dr. Stirling Bryan is a professor in UBC's School of Population & Public Health, and Director of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Dr. Bryan is an economist with a career-long specialization…
Thurs 18 Oct 2012 | Fri 19 Oct 2012 Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:45 – 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Charlene McBrien-Morrison, Executive Director, Health Quality Council of Alberta Steve Buick, Director of Policy and Communications, Institute of Health Economics Kathryn Todd, Senior Vice President, Research, Alberta Health Services 09:00 – 09:30 EQ-5D - Building Common Understanding…
Background: The aim of this study was to extend an earlier retrospective cohort study of schizophrenia via a prospective study to a follow-up of 34 years, with an emphasis on describing the life-course of the illness.
| Thanh Nguyen, Anderson Chuck, Arto Ohinmaa, Philip Jacobs
Background: The benefits of pharmaceutical innovations are widely diffused; they accrue to the healthcare providers, patients, employers, and manufacturers. We estimate the societal monetary benefits of simvastatin in Canada and its distribution among different beneficiaries overtime.
| Mel Slomp, Philip Jacobs, Arto Ohinmaa, Roger Bland, Ray Block, Carolyn Dewa, Carina Wang
OBJECTIVES: In Canada, most mental health services are embedded in the publichealth care system. Little is known of the cost distribution within the mental healthpopulation. Our study aims to estimate the depression care costs of patients with adepression diagnosis, ranking them by the increasing total depression health carecosts.
| Logan McLeod, JoAnn Kingston-Riechers, Egon Jonsson
Abstract: The potential risks to patient safety in a primary care setting are different than the risks to patient safety in an acute care setting. The main differences arise from the organisational structures of primary care delivery and the greater involvement of patients in their care. To account for these differences, we present the Patient Safety in Primary Care Framework…
Monday, 30 July 2012Montréal, Québec Welcome, Introductions, and Overview John Sproule, IHEDon Husereau, University of Ottawa Roundtable Discussion – Assessment of System Readiness Moderator: John Sproule Is the current state of adoption and implementation ideal? What should the goals be for personalized medicine in Canada? What are the components of a vision…
| Sherilyn Houle, Anderson Chuck, Finlay McAlister, Ross Tsuyuki
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To quantify the potential cost savings of a community pharmacy-basedhypertension management program based on the results of the Study of Cardiovascular Risk Intervention by Pharmacists-Hypertension (SCRIP-HTN) study in terms of avoided cardiovascular events-myocardial infarction, stroke, and heart failure hospitalization, and to compare these cost savings…
Speaker Biographies Keynote Speaker Sir Michael MarmotDirector, Institute of Health Equity and MRC Research Professor in Epidemiology, University College London Sir Michael Marmot has led a research group on health inequalities for the past 30 years. He has been invited by the Regional Director of WHO Euro to conduct a European review of health inequalities. At the request of the…
31 May 2012Edmonton, Alberta Welcome and Introductions Dr. Lorne Tyrrell, Chair, Institute of Health EconomicsDownload Presentation http://vimeo.com/channels/907291/44105094 Dr. Chris Mazurkewich, Executive Vice President and CEO, Alberta Health Serviceshttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/45175125 Honourable David Hancock, Minister of Human Serviceshttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/44087423 …
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Sir Michael Marmot, Director, Institute of Health Equity and MRC Research Professor in Epidemiology, University College London.
IHE Innovation Forum VII – Social Determinants of Health
| Bach Tran, Arto Ohinmaa, Anh Duong, Nhan Do, Long Nguyen, Quoc Nguyen, Steve Mills, Philip Jacobs, Stan Houston
PURPOSE: This longitudinal study assessed the changes in drug use patterns and health-related quality of life (HRQL) among HIV-positive drug users in the first methadonemaintenance treatment (MMT) cohort in Vietnam.
| Anne-Marie Boström, Susan E Slaughter, Dagmara Chojecki, Carole Estabrooks
OBJECTIVES: The recent emphasis on knowledge translation (KT) in health care is based on the premise that quality of care improves when research findings are translated into practice. This study aimed to identify the extent, nature, and settings of KT research pertaining to the care of older adults.
| Bing Guo, Christa Harstall, Thomas Louie, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Levinus Dieleman
Aim: To critically appraise the clinical research evidence on the safety and effectiveness of FT compared with standard care in the treatment of patients with CDAD.
From the Introduction: Until four or five decades ago, the clinical consensus about childhood depression was that it did not, and perhaps could not, occur (Lefkowitz & Burton, 1978; Rie, 1966; Rochlin, 1965; Wolfenstein, 1966). In fact, prior to 1960, childhood depression was rarely mentioned in the literature (Cytryn, 2003; Tisher, 2007). A number of studies and conceptualizations…
Speakers Dr. Jeffrey Hoch Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Director Pharmacoeconomics Research Unit, Cancer Care Ontario Dr. Stuart Peacock Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia; Co-Director, Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control Mr. Don Husereau…
Wednesday – Thursday, 11 – 12 January 2012Ottawa, Ontario Selected Plenary Presentations from Health Canada/CIHR Workshop Measuring Value in Personalized MedicineDr. Deborah Marshallhttp://player.vimeo.com/video/35735037 HTA Assessment in Australia - Challenges for Personalized MedicineDr. Robyn Wardhttp://player.vimeo.com/video/35785570 Stratified Medicine - Observations…