The August 2013 Data Bulletin examines the effect of the introduction of activity-based funding in BC on volume and acuity of day surgery patients. Subscribe to our monthly Data Bulletins to follow our ongoing investigation of the effects of the introduction of activity-based funding in BC.
Sutherland and Crump examine options for the post-acute care sector in Canada. Could funding reforms in BC and Ontario fail to increase hospital activity due to the alternative level of care bottleneck?
Sutherland and Repin publish commentary in the Windsor Star.
The Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research held their annual conference in Vancouver from May 28 to 31, 2013. The conference was well attended by the Healthcare Funding team, and we gave a presentation about our evaluation of the effects of introducing activity-based funding in BC and a poster about linking costs of care across different parts of the health system. Read more
The June 2013 Data Bulletin examines the effect of the introduction of activity-based funding in BC on nursing-sensitive adverse event rates.
Jason Sutherland considers payment models in Quebec in Le Soleil and Le Huffington Post.
Sutherland and Hellsten publish Globe & Mail commentary.
International perspectives on US healthcare reform from Jason Sutherland and co-authors in BMJ.
The May 2013 Data Bulletin examines the effect of the introduction of activity-based funding in BC on hospital readmission rates.
This site is about funding, it’s about how we fund healthcare, and about how we fund hospitals. It’s about how we measure and analyze the effect that different funding methods have on the healthcare so that, in the end, we can design better systems. To do this, we analyze vast amounts of data. We rely heavily on the diagnostic data captured in administrative data to adjust our comparisons for differences in the complexity of patients both over time and across hospitals. A crucial question for us and other health services researchers is, “how reliable are the data we use?” Read more
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