Background Activity-based funding (ABF) of hospitals is a policy intervention intended to re-
shape incentives across health systems through the use of diagnosis-related groups. Many …

Introduction Providing cost-effective, accessible, high quality patient care is a challenge to
governments and health care delivery systems across the globe. In response to this …

Policy Points Policymakers interested in advancing integrated models of care may benefit
from understanding how integration itself is generated. Integration is analyzed as the …

Abstract Background North American patients are experiencing difficulties in securing
affiliations with family physicians. Centralized waiting lists are increasingly being used in …

Community-based primary health care describes a model of service provision that is
oriented to the population health needs and wants of service users and communities, and …

A wall is more or less white than another wall we can see or imagine. So, our subjectivity,
with the wealth of comparisons it implants in us, transforms us into tourists of ourselves …

Improving patient experience has emerged as an important healthcare policy priority across
Canada. Tools and systems for monitoring patient experience metrics are becoming …

As mental health care transitions from facility-based care to community-based services,
methods to classify patients in terms of their expected health care resource use are an …

BACKGROUND Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is an effective option in the management of
brain metastases, offering improved overall survival to whole-brain radiation therapy …

Growing healthcare expenditure is a major concern for policy makers and calls for effective
cost containment measures. For the decentralized Swiss healthcare system, ranking second …