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- 13Estabrooks, C. A.
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Affirming the value of the resident assessment instrument: Minimum data set version 2.0 for nursing home decision-making and quality improvement
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Wagg, Adrian S., Drummond, Lindsay S., Jones, C. Allyson, Slaughter, Susan E.
Background: We examined the agreement over time of the physical functioning domains of the Resident Assessment Instrument: Minimum Data Set Version 2.0 (RAI-MDS) and the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) in nursing home residents with dementia. Methods: We completed a secondary analysis of...
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2009
Svenson, L. W., Schopflocher, D. P., Yiannakoulias, N.
Background Geographic public health surveillance is concerned with describing and disseminating geographic information about disease and other measures of health to policy makers and the public. While methodological developments in the geographical analysis of disease are numerous, few have been...
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2005
Ranson Ratusz, A., Slater, L., Skillen, D.L., Olson, J., Anderson, M., Boman, J., Anderson, A., Day, R., Yonge, O., Profetto-McGrath, J.
Purpose: To describe nursing education research literature in terms of quality, content areas under investigation, geographic location of the research, research designs utilized, sample sizes, instruments used to collect data, and funding sources. Design and Methods: Quantitative and qualitative...
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Assessment of Variation in the Alberta Context Tool: The Contribution of Unit Level Contextual Factors and Specialty in Canadian Pediatric Acute Care Settings
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Stevens, B., Squires, J.E., Hutchinson, A., Midodzi, W.K., Cummings, G.G., Kang, S.H., Scott, S., Estabrooks, C.A.
Background: There are few validated measures of organizational context and none that we located are parsimonious and address modifiable characteristics of context. The Alberta Context Tool (ACT) was developed to meet this need. The instrument assesses 8 dimensions of context, which comprise 10...
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Best strategies to implement clinical pathways in an emergency department setting: Study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.
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Guttman, A., Scott, S. D., McNaughton-Filion, M. L., Lougheed, M. D., Taljaard, M., Shafir, M., Klassen, T., Grimshaw, J., Johnson, D. W., Ducharme, F. M., Jabbour, M., Newton, A., Paprica, A., Rotter, T., Curran, J.
Background The clinical pathway is a tool that operationalizes best evidence recommendations and clinical practice guidelines in an accessible format for ‘point of care’ management by multidisciplinary health teams in hospital settings. While high-quality, expert-developed clinical pathways have...
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2005
Golden-Biddle, K., Thomson, D., Reay, T., Estabrooks, C.A., Bzdel, L.
Anonymization—the removal of identifying information from data—is one way of preparing data for secondary use. This process has not received much attention from scholars, but close examination shows that it is full of methodological, ethical and theoretical tensions. Qualitative research focuses...
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Comparison of costs and associated outcomes between women choosing newly integrated autonomous midwifery care and matched controls: a pilot study.
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Newburn-Cook, C., Sommerfeldt, S., Schopflocher, D., Harvey, S., O'Brien, B., Beischel, S.
OBJECTIVE: In response to consumer demand and a critical shortage of Canadian maternity care providers, provinces have integrated or are in the process of integrating midwives into their health care systems. We compared the costs and outcomes of newly integrated, autonomous midwifery care with...
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2007
Markle-Reid, M., Kingston, D., Browne, G., Grdisa, V.
Introduction: Integration has been advanced as a strategy for the delivery of a number of human services that have traditionally been delivered by autonomous agencies with independent processes and funding sources. However, measurement of the dimensions of integration has been hampered by...
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Data for Improvement and Clinical Excellence: Protocol for an Audit with Feedback Intervention in Home Care and Supportive Living
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Fraser, K.D., O'Rourke, H.M., Sales, A.E., Schalm, C.
Background: Although considerable evidence exists about the effectiveness of audit coupled with feedback, very few audit-with-feedback interventions have been done in either home care or supportive living settings to date. With little history of audit and feedback in home care or supportive...
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2009
Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Cummings, G.G., Squires, J.E., Birdsell, J.M.
Background: The context of healthcare organizations such as hospitals is increasingly accepted as having the potential to influence the use of new knowledge. However, the mechanisms by which the organizational context influences evidence-based practices are not well understood. Current measures...