Publications by authors named "E Coiera"

Background: Virtual care is increasingly incorporated within routine health care settings to improve patient experience and access to care. A patient's experience encompasses all the interactions an individual has with the health care system. This includes a greater emphasis on actively involving carers in the decisions and activities surrounding a patient's health care.

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  • * The review analyzed 33,737 publications, ultimately including 205 studies that explored various strategies to limit emissions in healthcare, with a focus on clinical practices, governance, waste management, and decarbonization efforts.
  • * Key findings highlighted nine themes for emission reduction efforts, including changes in surgical practices, policy enactment, waste management, and minimizing transportation, among others.
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Background: Health systems underwent substantial changes to respond to COVID-19. Learning from the successes and failures of health system COVID-19 responses may help us understand how future health service responses can be designed to be both effective and sustainable. This study aims to identify the role that innovation played in crafting health service responses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health systems around the globe. Lessons from health systems responses to these challenges may help design effective and sustainable health system responses for future challenges. This study aimed to 1/ identify the broad types of health system challenges faced during the pandemic and 2/ develop a typology of health system response to these challenges.

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