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Brigette Hales
Researcher at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Publications - 17
Citations - 1234
Brigette Hales is an academic researcher from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & End-of-life care. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 12 publications receiving 1125 citations.
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The checklist--a tool for error management and performance improvement.
TL;DR: This narrative is a guide to the evolution of medical and critical care checklists, and a discussion of the barriers and risks to the implementation of checklists.
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Development of medical checklists for improved quality of patient care
TL;DR: A narrative review of the literature was conducted to outline the methodology to designing and implementing clear and effective medical checklists, suggesting a highly effective, standardized methodology for the development and design of medical-specific checklists has not previously been developed and validated.
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A multifaceted intervention for quality improvement in a network of intensive care units: a cluster randomized trial.
Damon C. Scales,Katie N. Dainty,Brigette Hales,Ruxandra Pinto,Robert A. Fowler,Neill K. J. Adhikari,Merrick Zwarenstein +6 more
TL;DR: In a collaborative network of community ICUs, a multifaceted quality improvement intervention improved adoption of care practices and was greater in intervention ICUs than in controls.
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Factors affecting family satisfaction with inpatient end-of-life care.
Erin Sadler,Brigette Hales,Blair Henry,Wei Xiong,Jeff Myers,Lesia Wynnychuk,Ru Taggar,Daren K. Heyland,Robert A. Fowler +8 more
TL;DR: Family satisfaction with end-of-life care was strongly associated with their relative dying in their preferred location, and items identified as high-priority targets for improvement included: relationships with, and characteristics of health care professionals; illness management; communication; and end- of-life decision-making.
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Work-related lost productivity and its economic impact on Canadian patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
Brian Chan,Brigette Hales,Neil H. Shear,Vincent T. Ho,Charles Lynde,Yves Poulin,Nicole Mittmann +6 more
TL;DR: The results from this study indicate that moderate to severe psoriasis may have a substantial impact on the work productivity of patients with this disease.