
Doug Allan
@leftwords
Health care, fiscal, labour, and international issues. The usual disclaimers.
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26-04-2009 23:31:31
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“…per-procedure payments ....will not provide a (sufficient) return for the financial backers”. Despite costing twice as much, taking only the least complex cases and duplicating infrastructure, these investors call for higher prices. Scrap this policy. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…


Research continues to show that higher nurse-to-patient ratios reduce errors, and deaths in #hospital. Here is a report on why Ontario should mandate #nurse to patient ratios like other jurisdictions Jim Brophy, PhD University of Windsor OPSEU/SEFPO #nurses ochu.on.ca/nurse-to-patie…















"In addition to producing better outcomes, the costs avoided due to fewer readmissions and shorter LOS were more than twice the cost of the additional nurse staffing." - Effects of nurse-to-patient ratio legislation on nurse staffing (The Lancet, 2021) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC84…

