Background In 2014, nursing home administration and government officials were facing
increasing public and media scrutiny around the variation of antipsychotic medication (APM) …

Background: The detection and management of chronic kidney disease lies within primary
care; however, performance measures applicable in the Canadian context are lacking. We …

Background Efforts to maximize the impact of healthcare improvement interventions are
hampered when intervention components are not well defined or described, precluding the …

Background: Academic detailing, an educational outreach service for family physicians, was
funded by the Ontario government to address gaps in opioid prescribing and pain …

Background Benzodiazepines are commonly used to treat anxiety and/or insomnia but are
associated with substantial safety risks. Changes to prescribing patterns in primary care may …

Background Using data from a national cohort study and focus groups, the Women-Centred
HIV Care (WCHC) Model was developed to inform care delivery for women living with HIV. …

Provincial town clerks and scriveners have hitherto been a neglected subject in the historiography
of the legal profession, yet as this thesis demonstrates, they contributed significantly to …

Objective There is a large evidence to practice gap in diabetes care with limited performance
assessments that capture the full spectrum of care delivery. Our study aimed to develop a …

To be successful, healthcare improvement interventions must be aligned with the relevant
evidence; so the search, appraisal, and summary of evidence is a key element in CEP’s …

This thesis aimed to determine what factors influence individual-and community-level
shoreline stewardship attitudes and behaviours. Shoreline stewardship is part of the broader …