Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.)
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A new decade often begins with new life, new relationships and new purposes. Unfortunately, the start of this decade has been anything but, thanks to the rather unprecedented global crisis that has rapidly taken over our lives. COVID-19 - which seemed to be just a flu-like infection spreading modestly in mainland China - has suddenly became a pandemic that has crashed economies and broken health systems worldwide.
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Several major news stories in the past year have highlighted adverse events in Canadian healthcare and prompted questions about whether healthcare in Canada is safe and what is being done to improve it. While individual hospitals and regions are mounting patient safety efforts, these problems are systemic and require policy and organizational responses from governments and health regions, not just individual organizations.