A new national research agenda, shaped by patients, caregivers and clinicians, will guide the future of adolescent and young adult cancer research in Canada.
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Our study found a way to shorten hospital stays in mental health units by multiple days.
Health inequality is not only about who reaches a health facility. It is also about what happens once patients are inside the consultation room.
As nurses in Pittsburgh and nationwide spotlight staffing shortages, better pay and workplace safety, labor negotiations have intensified. Here’s what’s at stake.
Gifts that make a true connection acknowledge the ugly parts of illness and provide relief from daily burdens.
Here’s what’s really going on while you’re in the waiting room.
How do you know when it’s time to find a new GP? Here’s what to consider if you have that niggling feeling.
How practitioners listen and communicate helps shape patient experiences in healthcare systems.
Not too long ago, therapists created a wall between themselves and their patients. Have we gone too far in the other direction?
Too often, patients with chronic kidney disease get diagnosed too late – if at all. Addressing risk factors early can stave off the disease’s worst effects.
Training paramedics to provide home-based palliative care lets severely ill patients remain at home and takes pressure off emergency departments and the health system.
Research shows cardiac patients want to understand heart events, adopt heart-healthy diets, manage medications, recognize symptoms, control risk factors and engage in cardiac rehabilitation programs.
Medical volunteering can damage important relationships between health professionals and patients.
Research partnerships with the people and communities affected help to challenge health inequities, and support person-centred care in health systems.
Patients with incurable cancer want to be informed about their disease and its treatment, but must also maintain hope. This inner conflict can affect how they process information about their prognosis.
Governments can do more to protect patients at for-profit nursing homes. A behavioral scientist who studies nursing homes weighs in.
Before AI becomes widespread in health care, we need to ask what matters to consumers.
It’s all too common for health professionals and departments to slip into silo mentalities.
The shortage of family doctors affects not only patients, but the entire health-care system. A strong primary care foundation increases average lifespan, improves overall health and reduces costs.
Each encounter that health-care students have with patients and families helps them understand real-world patient needs. That means all Canadians have a role in educating future health-care providers.
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Lecturer, University of Leicester
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Professor, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Acting Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics Deputy Director, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham
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Professor MBBS, PhD, MPH, PGDipEcho, FANZCA, GAICD, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Operations Management, Brock University
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Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor/Director, Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Monash University
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Professor of Law, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, ZERO2FIVE Food Industry Centre, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor of Nursing and Director of Health Innovations, University of Wollongong
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Associate professor in palliative care, University of Leeds
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Research Associate, London School of Economics and Political Science