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Ross Baker Edits Patient Safety Issue of Healthcare Quarterly

Healthcare Quarterly is currently accepting submissions for a special issue on patient safety edited by Dr. G. Ross Baker. This issue is a collaboration of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, the Ontario Hospital Association Patient Safety Initiative and Longwoods Publishing Corporation. It will be published October 10, 2005 . For more information, or to submit a manuscript, see the Call for Papers (Adobe PDF).

Hospital Report IC 5 Quality Congress

“Improving Continence Care in Complex Continuing Care” , more commonly known as IC 5 , is the first multi-hospital collaborative led by the Hospital Report Research Collaborative. Fifteen IC 5 hospital teams met over 10 months to study, test and improve processes and practices in Continence Care, under the guidance of leading Continence Care and Quality Improvement experts. The results of the collaboration will be presented at the IC 5 Quality Congress in Toronto on November 18, 2005 .

Keynote speaker, Dr. G. Ross Baker, will discuss strategies for accelerating improvement in care. Dr. Gary Teare, Director of Quality Measurement and Analysis for Health Quality Council, will present preliminary findings from the IC 5 evaluation. 

The IC 5 Quality Congress brochure can be downloaded from the Hospital Report Research Collaborative website.

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