The ConsultLoop Wait Time Report: Data Shines Its Light is available for download here. The wait to see a specialist is an important period in healthcare, both for the patient and the referring clinician. Patients describe this period …
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To family doctors and nurse practitioners, this situation is as familiar as the common cold. You have a patient in front of you, and you need to consult a specialist for help, treatment, advice or any combination …
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Referrals between doctors is a really important part of healthcare that has an outsized impact considering how our current processes for handling them does such a poor job of meeting needs for doctors and patients alike. Consider first …
READ MOREMedicine has seen some profound changes in the last decades, especially with respect to gender. While traditionally a male-dominated field, recent years have seen women represent the majority of medical students in Canada (1), and family physicians …
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Canadian health care is always a hot topic, especially so on social media these days. Consider the activity online around last week’s visit by Senator Bernie Sanders and whether or not our system is one to be proud …
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Wait times reporting continues to garner much media attention in Ontario and across Canada. The recent report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows that on the whole Canada is doing a decent job meeting benchmarks for …
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Recent discourse on Canadian healthcare has put a stronger emphasis on access to care, especially patient access to specialty care. The CMAJ reported that Canadians wait the longest for specialty care out of 11 countries, based on a …
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