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Increased education and training in end- of-life care for community health care workers
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11610
- Date
- 2015-08-26
- Topics
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Ethics and medical professionalism
- Resolution
- GC15-34
- The Canadian Medical Association encourages increased education and training in end- of-life care for community health care workers.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2015-08-26
- Resolution
- GC15-34
- The Canadian Medical Association encourages increased education and training in end- of-life care for community health care workers.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association encourages increased education and training in end- of-life care for community health care workers.
Accredited standards for the management of life-limiting chronic disease
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11636
- Date
- 2015-08-26
- Topics
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Ethics and medical professionalism
- Resolution
- GC15-38
- The Canadian Medical Association supports the development and application of accredited standards for the integration of a palliative care approach into the management of life-limiting chronic disease.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2015-08-26
- Resolution
- GC15-38
- The Canadian Medical Association supports the development and application of accredited standards for the integration of a palliative care approach into the management of life-limiting chronic disease.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association supports the development and application of accredited standards for the integration of a palliative care approach into the management of life-limiting chronic disease.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11739
- Date
- 2015-05-30
- Topics
- Ethics and medical professionalism
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Resolution
- BD15-06-232
- The Canadian Medical Association acknowledges the completion of the important work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the importance of recognizing and not forgetting the terrible impact that the residential school system has had and, as a consequence of ongoing intergenerational trauma, continues to have on the health of many First Nations, Inuit and Metis People of Canada.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2015-05-30
- Resolution
- BD15-06-232
- The Canadian Medical Association acknowledges the completion of the important work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the importance of recognizing and not forgetting the terrible impact that the residential school system has had and, as a consequence of ongoing intergenerational trauma, continues to have on the health of many First Nations, Inuit and Metis People of Canada.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association acknowledges the completion of the important work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the importance of recognizing and not forgetting the terrible impact that the residential school system has had and, as a consequence of ongoing intergenerational trauma, continues to have on the health of many First Nations, Inuit and Metis People of Canada.
Physician engagement in palliative care
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11748
- Date
- 2015-05-30
- Topics
- Ethics and medical professionalism
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Resolution
- BD15-06-209
- The Canadian Medical Association adopts, in principle, the recommendations for physician engagement in palliative care as set out in the report, Palliative Care: CMA National Call to Action as outlined in Appendix A to EX 15-21, as amended.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2015-05-30
- Resolution
- BD15-06-209
- The Canadian Medical Association adopts, in principle, the recommendations for physician engagement in palliative care as set out in the report, Palliative Care: CMA National Call to Action as outlined in Appendix A to EX 15-21, as amended.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association adopts, in principle, the recommendations for physician engagement in palliative care as set out in the report, Palliative Care: CMA National Call to Action as outlined in Appendix A to EX 15-21, as amended.
Patient bill of health information rights
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy9498
- Last Reviewed
- 2016-05-20
- Date
- 2009-08-19
- Topics
- Health care and patient safety
- Health information and e-health
- Ethics and medical professionalism
- Resolution
- GC09-17
- The Canadian Medical Association and provincial/territorial medical associations call on governments to engage patients and the public in the development of a patient bill of health information rights that sets out a vision for the governance of patient health information.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Last Reviewed
- 2016-05-20
- Date
- 2009-08-19
- Topics
- Health care and patient safety
- Health information and e-health
- Ethics and medical professionalism
- Resolution
- GC09-17
- The Canadian Medical Association and provincial/territorial medical associations call on governments to engage patients and the public in the development of a patient bill of health information rights that sets out a vision for the governance of patient health information.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association and provincial/territorial medical associations call on governments to engage patients and the public in the development of a patient bill of health information rights that sets out a vision for the governance of patient health information.
Immunization of physicians and other health care providers
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy9530
- Last Reviewed
- 2016-05-20
- Date
- 2009-08-19
- Topics
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Ethics and medical professionalism
- Health human resources
- Resolution
- GC09-95
- The Canadian Medical Association encourages all physicians and other health care providers to be immunized for influenza annually.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Last Reviewed
- 2016-05-20
- Date
- 2009-08-19
- Topics
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Ethics and medical professionalism
- Health human resources
- Resolution
- GC09-95
- The Canadian Medical Association encourages all physicians and other health care providers to be immunized for influenza annually.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association encourages all physicians and other health care providers to be immunized for influenza annually.
Electronic health records
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy9543
- Last Reviewed
- 2016-05-20
- Date
- 2009-08-19
- Topics
- Ethics and medical professionalism
- Health information and e-health
- Health care and patient safety
- Resolution
- GC09-47
- The Canadian Medical Association will work with provincial/territorial medical associations to demand that governments recognize that the flow of information from the patient record to the electronic health records is the professional responsibility of physicians.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Last Reviewed
- 2016-05-20
- Date
- 2009-08-19
- Topics
- Ethics and medical professionalism
- Health information and e-health
- Health care and patient safety
- Resolution
- GC09-47
- The Canadian Medical Association will work with provincial/territorial medical associations to demand that governments recognize that the flow of information from the patient record to the electronic health records is the professional responsibility of physicians.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association will work with provincial/territorial medical associations to demand that governments recognize that the flow of information from the patient record to the electronic health records is the professional responsibility of physicians.