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Activity-based funding of hospitals and its impact on mortality, readmission, discharge destination, severity of illness, and volume of care: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Palmer, Karen S, Agoritsas, Thomas, Martin, Danielle, Scott, Taryn, Mulla, Sohail M, Miller, Ashley P, Agarwal, Arnav, Bresnahan, Andrew, Hazzan, Afeez Abiola, Jeffery, Rebecca A, Merglen, Arnaud, Negm, Ahmed, Siemieniuk, Reed A, Bhatnagar, Neera, Dhalla, Irfan A, Lavis, John N, You, John J, Duckett, Stephen J, Guyatt, Gordon H

“…Activity-based funding (ABF) of hospitals is a policy intervention intended to re-shape incentives across health systems through the use of diagnosis-related…”
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Effects of quality-based procedure hospital funding reform in Ontario, Canada: An interrupted time series study by Li, Alvin Ho-ting, Palmer, Karen S, Taljaard, Monica, Paterson, J. Michael, Brown, Adalsteinn, Huang, Anjie, Marani, Husayn, Lapointe-Shaw, Lauren, Pincus, Daniel, Wettstein, Marian S, Kulkarni, Girish S, Wasserstein, David, Ivers, Noah, Brunner-La Rocca, Hans-Peter

“…Background The Government of Ontario, Canada, announced hospital funding reforms in 2011, including Quality-based Procedures (QBPs) involving pre-set funds for…”
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Qualitative analysis of the dynamics of policy design and implementation in hospital funding reform by Palmer, Karen S, Brown, Adalsteinn D, Evans, Jenna M, Marani, Husayn, Russell, Kirstie K, Martin, Danielle, Ivers, Noah M

“…As in many health care systems, some Canadian jurisdictions have begun shifting away from global hospital budgets. Payment for episodes of care has begun to be…”
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Effects of hospital funding reform on wait times for hip fracture surgery: a population-based interrupted time-series analysis by Pincus, Daniel, Widdifield, Jessica, Palmer, Karen S, Paterson, J. Michael, Li, Alvin, Huang, Anjie, Wasserstein, David, Lapointe-Shaw, Lauren, Brown, Adalsteinn, Taljaard, Monica, Ivers, Noah M

“…Abstract Background Health care funding reforms are being used worldwide to improve system performance but may invoke unintended consequences. We assessed the…”
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For health or for profit? Understanding how private financing and for-profit delivery operate within Canadian healthcare (4H|4P): protocol for a multimethod knowledge mobilisation research project by Hedden, Lindsay, Spencer, Sarah, Allin, Sara, Contandriopoulos, Damien, Gavin, Frank, Grudniewicz, Agnes, Lavergne, M Ruth, Leaver, Chad, Lexchin, Joel, McKay, Madeleine, Mathews, Maria, McCracken, Rita K, McGrail, Kimberlyn, Palmer, Karen S, Poitras, Marie-Eve, Rudoler, David, Spithoff, Sheryl, Vanstone, Meredith

“…Privatisation through the expansion of private payment and investor-owned corporate healthcare delivery in Canada raises potential conflicts with equity…”
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Correction: Qualitative analysis of the dynamics of policy design and implementation in hospital funding reform by Palmer, Karen S, Brown, Adalsteinn D, Evans, Jenna M, Marani, Husayn, Russell, Kirstie K, Martin, Danielle, Ivers, Noah M

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191996.]…”
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Standardising costs or standardising care? Qualitative evaluation of the implementation and impact of a hospital funding reform in Ontario, Canada by Palmer, Karen S, Brown, Adalsteinn D, Evans, Jenna M, Marani, Husayn, Russell, Kirstie K, Martin, Danielle, Ivers, Noah M

“…Since 2011, the Government of Ontario, Canada, has phased in hospital funding reforms hoping to encourage standardised, evidence-based clinical care processes…”
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Out of sync: a Shared Mental Models perspective on policy implementation in healthcare by Evans, Jenna M, Palmer, Karen S, Brown, Adalsteinn D, Marani, Husayn, Russell, Kirstie K, Martin, Danielle, Ivers, Noah M

“…The impact of policy ambiguity on implementation is a perennial concern in policy circles. The degree of ambiguity of policy goals and the means to achieve…”
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Understanding How Post-COVID-19 Condition Affects Adults and Health Care Systems by Katz, Gabrielle M, Bach, Katie, Bobos, Pavlos, Cheung, Angela, Décary, Simon, Goulding, Susie, Herridge, Margaret S, McNaughton, Candace D, Palmer, Karen S, Razak, Fahad A, Zhang, Betty, Quinn, Kieran L

“…Post-COVID-19 condition (PCC), also known as long COVID, encompasses the range of symptoms and sequelae that affect many people with prior SARS-CoV-2…”
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Divergent notions of “quality” in healthcare policy implementation: a framing perspective by Marani, Husayn, Evans, Jenna M, Palmer, Karen S, Brown, Adalsteinn, Martin, Danielle, Ivers, Noah M

“…PurposeThis paper examines how “quality” was framed in the design and implementation of a policy to reform hospital funding and associated care delivery. The…”
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Physicians' perceptions of quality of care, professional autonomy, and job satisfaction in Canada, Norway, and the United States by Tyssen, Reidar, Palmer, Karen S, Solberg, Ingunn B, Voltmer, Edgar, Frank, Erica

“…We lack national and cross-national studies of physicians' perceptions of quality of patient care, professional autonomy, and job satisfaction to inform…”
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Why Canada Is in Court to Protect Healthcare for All: Global Implications for Universal Health Coverage by Frank, John, Pagliari, Claudia, Donaldson, Cam, Pickett, Kate E, Palmer, Karen S

“…Countries worldwide are currently endeavoring to safeguard the long-term health of their populations through implementing Universal Health Coverage (UHC), in…”
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Prelude to a systematic review of activity-based funding of hospitals: potential effects on cost, quality, access, efficiency, and equity by Palmer, Karen S, Martin, Danielle, Guyatt, Gordon

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Management Strategies and Patient Selection After a Hospital Funding Reform for Prostate Cancer Surgery in Canada by Wettstein, Marian S, Palmer, Karen S, Kulkarni, Girish S, Paterson, J Michael, Ling, Vicki, Lapointe-Shaw, Lauren, Li, Alvin H, Brown, Adalsteinn, Taljaard, Monica, Ivers, Noah

“…Hospital funding reforms for prostate cancer surgery may have altered management of localized prostate cancer in the province of Ontario, Canada. To determine…”
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Prenatal care in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands by Fox, Andrew M, Parker, Theodore, Palmer, Karen S

“…Adequacy of prenatal care is assessed in this retrospective analysis of the births occurring in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) from…”
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Healing an ailing pharmaceutical system: prescription for reform for United States and Canada by Gaffney, Adam, Lexchin, Joel

“…Our pharmaceutical systems are broken, and only fundamental reform can ensure universal access to safer, more innovative, and more affordable drugs…”
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MP41-03 TRENDS IN DIAGNOSIS AND INITIAL MANAGEMENT OF LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER: A RETROSPECTIVE POPULATION-BASED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS WITHIN THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO by Wettstein, Marian S., Ling, Vicki, Paterson, J. Michael, Li, Alvin H., Brown, Adalsteinn, Palmer, Karen S., Ivers, Noah, Kulkarni, Girish S.

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A Comparison of Criteria Used in Gifted Identification in the Commonwealth of Virginia by Palmer, Karen S

“…In the Commonwealth of Virginia, gifted education plans are submitted to the state every five years for state approval. The plans must indicate the use of a…”
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The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States by Palmer, Karen S., Nelson, Mark

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