Advisory CommitteesAlbertaPatient SafetyProfessional AutonomyProgram DevelopmentQuality Assurance, Health CareIn the early 2000s, the Alberta government established the roots of what is now the Health Quality Council of Alberta. Ultimately, the Health Quality Council of Alberta's goal is to provide the ...
Medical Technology and Patient Safety A defining characteristic of the modern health care delivery system is the ubiquitous use of medical technology. Broadly speaking, medical technology includes not only medical devices, drugs, and biologics, but also the medical and surgical procedures that they enab...
The report says the COVID-19 Omicron outbreak in the Torres and Cape region resulted in a far lower burden of severe illness than originally anticipated, with the overall and First Nations case fatality and ICU admission rates similar to those reported nationally for the Omicron wave and that t...
able to reduce the burden of senescent T, NK, progenitor, and endothelial cells from fat tissue, and demonstrate that reducing the senescent cell burden in mice even late in life is sufficient to have a significant health impact. Given the known safety profile of fisetin in...
I highly recommend Alberta and BC for golfing ). In my little town of 100k in TX we had more MRI than all of BC and we had more CT scanners than all of BC. Access was an issue for them, but not for us. Same day exams weren't generally a big deal. D H said: I said that...
Participating on patient safety related committees Dedicated to improving the patient experience and environment Seeking out potential hazards and/or provides solutions to reduce risks to patients To nominate an MHS employee as a Patient Safety Champion, submit that person’s name, department/base/statio...
which reflects the region’s population. Workforce programs co-ordinator, Alisha Kyle said programs likeDeadly Starthelp to improve cultural safety, “by having a workforce that represents our First Nations consumers, we are improving access to healthcare for our mob, and ultimately improving their ...
39. Virani S, Strong D, Tennant M, Greve M, Young H, Shade S, Kanji M, Toth E, Diabetes IICA: Rationale and implementation of the SLICK project: screening for limb, I-Eye, cardiovascular and kidney (SLICK) complications in individuals with type 2 diabetes in Alberta's First Nations ...
Other provinces were not included because they were not part of CHHDP (New Brunswick, Nova Sco- tia) or adopted different approaches to heart health pro- motion because of financial constraints or clinical foci (Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec). An interpretive qualitative approach was used to...
These findings are consistent with a special investigation report by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (USA), which estimated that more than 50% of skiing- and snowboarding-related head injuries among children younger than 15 years of age could be reduced by using a helmet, and 11 deaths ...