An evaluation of the impact for healthcare professionals after a leadership innovation fellowship program.

Background: Leadership among healthcare professionals is required to address important healthcare challenges. The TAHSNp Health Professions Innovation Fellowship program ("Program") supports health professionals' leadership development by offering them an opportunity to lead a quality improvement project and participate in a curriculum focused on leading change.

Objective: As part of an outcome evaluation of the program, our objective was to determine the program's impact on leadership activities and roles undertaken by alumni.

Supporting Discovery and Inquiry: A Canadian Hospital's Approach to Building Research and Innovation Capacity in Point-of-Care Health Professionals.

Background And Objectives: Building capacity for research and innovation among point-of-care health professionals can translate into positive outcomes from the organization, staff, and patient perspective. However, there is not a widely accepted framework in place across academic hospitals to guide this work and measure impact. This article outlines one Canadian hospital's approach and provides a blueprint with appropriate indicators as a starting point and guide for organizations looking to develop and implement a practice-based research and innovation strategy.

It Only Takes a Minute: The Development and Implementation of a Patient Experience Survey in Radiation Therapy.

Introduction: Health care services use surveys to assess patient satisfaction and identify areas for improvement. While it is important to assess patient satisfaction to ensure their needs are met, lengthy questionnaires with closed-ended questions often focus on areas that may be considered important by institutions rather than patients. Recently, focus has shifted toward patient and caregiver experience, which institutions address via appreciative inquiry.

Clinical Image Coregistration Variability on a Dedicated Radiosurgery Unit.

Background: On a new dedicated radiosurgery unit enabling frameless treatments, a cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) can be used for stereotactic definition. Since magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to delineate target, reproducible MRI-to-CBCT coregistration is vital for accurate target localization.

Objective: To evaluate reproducibility of image coregistration in patient images.