In publicly funded health systems, reform efforts have proliferated to adapt to increasingly
complex demands. In Canada, prior research (Lazar et al., 2013, Paradigm Freeze: Why is it …

Over the last 15 years, there has been a trend in Canada to centralise the provision of health
services that were previously administratively and fiscally decentralised. Canadian policy …

PHC RIS would also like to thank Dr Nick Goodwin, CEO of the International Foundation for
Integrated Care (IFIC) and Senior Associate at The King's Fund in London for his valuable …

Aim: To describe how organizational context and restructuring influenced nurse leaders' use
of evidence in decision-making in their management practice. Method: Qualitative …

Canadians are, at best, only “marginally confident” in the future of Canada's healthcare
system (Nanos and Jenkins 2014). They are skeptical that simply spending more money can …

Objectives–The purpose of this research was to gain insight into the information behaviour
of health service managers as they informed critical decisions unrelated to individual patient …

For the past 30 years unions have faced declining membership density because of a
combination of increasingly hostile employers and governments, as well as industrial …

This year's theme of representation poses an interesting set of challenges for health
researchers. For example, it is very difficult to find any organized participants in health …

We agree completely with Dr. Hébert's position that performance measurement should be a
major priority. 1 He poses the question:“So why do measuring performance and health …