Barbara Liu

By Alekhya Johnson, Mary-Lynn Peters, Wendy Zeh, and Barbara Liu What images come to mind when you see the word “aggressive” in a patient’s chart? What about “wandering” or “violent”? An 85-year-old man with dementia is admitted to hospital. While being showered, he grabs the care provider. The following note is added to his chart: “patient is aggressive”. Weeks later, his application to long-term care is declined and his discharge is deferred.

Health services research Original research Evaluating quality of overall care among older adults with diabetes with comorbidities in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4785-0569Yelena Petrosyan1, Kerry Kuluski2,3, Jan Barnsley2, Barbara Liu4, Walter P Wodchis2,3 1 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2 Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,...

Preventing injuries from falls, especially among the elderly, has been a flagship issue for health care quality improvement and patient safety for nearly two decades. The complications that can follow broken bones at an advanced age, most notably a broken hip, can literally be deadly. This reality, numerous programs, and reporting requirements have kept falls prevention front and center across the health care continuum.