Provinces call for improved senior care

Provinces call for improved senior care.

Entrustment of the on-call senior medical resident role: implications for patient safety and collective care

BACKGROUND The on-call responsibilities of a senior medicine resident (SMR) may include the admission transition of patient care on medical teaching teams (MTT), supervision of junior trainees, and ensuring patient safety. In many institutions, there is no standardised assessment of SMR competency prior to granting these on-call responsibilities in internal medicine. In order to fulfill compete...

New Challenges for Senior Leadership Enhancement for Improved Public Management

Call for information, call for quality in mental health care.

The quality of routine mental health care is not optimal, it can vary greatly from region to region and among providers; in many occasions, it does not correspond to the standards of evidence-based mental health. To bridge this gap, the promotion of a systematic use of the information available for quality assurance would be most helpful, but measuring the quality of mental health care is parti...

Improved Techniques for Automatic Call-routing

Call routing refers to the technique of automatically relaying a customer’s telephone enquiry to the appropriate destination, using computational speech and language processing techniques. The potential benefits of such a technology are obvious to anyone who has used the slow and frustrating systems which are currently universally provided when one telephones a company, institution, government ...