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October Data Bulletin: Nursing-Sensitive Adverse Events

October 31, 2013

The October 2013 Data Bulletin examines the effect of the introduction of activity-based funding in BC on hospital quality, as measured by nursing-sensitive adverse events.

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Program available for ABF-focused conference in Toronto in January

October 25, 2013

The IIR Healthcare Conference Series is hosting an activity based funding conference in Toronto on Jan. 29-30, 2014. Jason Sutherland will be speaking.

Op-ed: Alberta’s new pay model for long-term care a step in the right direction

October 23, 2013

Trafford Crump and Erik Hellsten have published an op-ed in the Globe & Mail that argues that waits for long-term care beds in Alberta should improve, given the implementation of a new patient/care-based funding model.

New issue of Health Care Funding News

October 15, 2013

The October 2013 issue of Health Care Funding News explores pay-for-performance funding policies and considers the implications of using patient-reported outcomes as quality measures in pay-for-performance initiatives.

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Systematic review of ABF in hospitals

October 9, 2013

A group of Canadian researchers (not affiliated with this website) are embarking upon a systematic review of activity-based funding in hospitals. They have published a prelude in Open Medicine.

New analysis on long-term care funding in Alberta