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Transforming Acute Care with Near-Patient Testing: A Game Changer in the Fight Against AMR

These past few years, we have seen remarkable technological advances, particularly in healthcare with the development of innovative medical devices. With the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), near-patient testing (NPT) has emerged as a potentially valuable tool for streamlining traditional laboratory diagnostic pathways....

Innovative strategies: Preparing for a resilient fall season

As Canada’s health care landscape braces for another fall respiratory season, lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic remain top-of-mind. Humber River Health (Humber) has taken these lessons to heart, developing innovative strategies to meet potential growth in demand in the coming months. By addressing...

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Research uncovers high sepsis rates in some Hamilton neighbourhoods

Hamilton residents living in north and east-end neighbourhoods with L8L and L8H postal codes...

The secret sauce for cleaning and disinfecting

Patients and staff are seeing a lot more blue at hospitals in the Fraser...

Silver lining: A pandemic need turns into a long-term improvement in community care

Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic devastated long-term care homes, those hit hardest in...

HPV vaccination switch to 1-dose gender-neutral approach

Canadian vaccination programs could switch to a 1-dose gender-neutral human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination approach...

Understanding vaccine hesitancy among transitional-aged youth with mental health concerns

A recent CAMH youth-led qualitative study of attitudes and beliefs among transitional-aged youth (aged...

Infection Control goes global

Effective infection prevention and control (IPC) programs save lives. COVID-19 tragically uncovered gaps in...

The many hats of a sepsis expert

Dr. Alison Fox-Robichaud’s passion for research dates back to her teenage years, when she...

Infections following hip replacement associated with an increased risk of death, study finds

Patients who develop a periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) after a total hip replacement have...

IPAC Canada Develops Essential New Course to Support Long-Term Care Infection Prevention and Control Leads

Infection Prevention and Control Canada (IPAC Canada) is launching a comprehensive training program tailored...

Unity Health to create ‘coast-to-coast shield’ to protect Canada in the next pandemic

Unity Health Toronto has received $18.9 million in federal funding to create a national...

Collaborating internationally to better protect patients from superbugs

Surrey Memorial Hospital is one of 12 hospitals around the globe involved in a...

Researching a new treatment for sepsis

For people who are in the intensive care unit (ICU) with a serious health...

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Working toward achieving the Quintuple Aim using holistic patient data

A new demonstration study from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) combined patient-reported...

COVID-19 vaccine cuts risk of disease in half when administered during pregnancy

A large multistate study, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s)...

Federal needle exchange programs are to reduce health care costs, blood-borne infections

New research suggests that every dollar spent in Prison Needle Exchange Programs (PNEPs) in...

AI-powered algorithm brings more accuracy to hospital discharge predictions

Accurately predicting when a patient will be ready to go home is at the...