published_or_final_version / Nursing Studies / Master / Master of Nursing

published_or_final_version / Public Health / Master / Master of Public Health

published_or_final_version / Social Work and Social Administration / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

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published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Clinical Psychology / Master / Master of Social Sciences

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Research into adverse events in home care is at a very early stage worldwide. Adverse event research in other health care sectors has demonstrated that patients can and do suffer harm, much of which is preventable, during the receipt of health care services. A stratified, random sample of patients who had received home care nursing service and were discharged in 2004/05 from three Ontario home care programs was studied to develop basic exploratory and descriptive evidence to advance the understanding of AEs in home care. The outcome is an estimate of the incidence of adverse events among patients, description of adverse event types and factors associated with adverse events, and the development of models predictive of home care patients with higher and lower potential for adverse events, and of the location of patients with adverse events. Positive critical indicators were identified in 66.5% of 430 cases. Sixty-one adverse events were identified in 55 (19.2%) of these 286 cases. When adjusted for sampling methodology, the adverse event rate was 13.2 per 100 patients (95%, CI 10.4% - 16.6%, SE 1.6%). Thirty-three percent of the adverse events were rated as having more than a 50% probability of preventability; 1.4% of all patients experienced an adverse event related death. Eight of the 45 factors significantly associated with adverse events formed a single factor model predictive of adverse events. Six two-factor interactions and the absence of one factor were also predictive of the occurrence of adverse events. Five of the 12 critical indicators significantly related to adverse events, as well as 7 critical indicator combinations formed models that reliably located about two-thirds of patients who had, and almost all patients who had not, experienced an adverse event. This study suggests that a significant number of home care patients experience adverse events, two-thirds of which are preventable. Use of adverse event sensitive factors as a screening tool for patients that may benefit from enhanced case management and clinical vigilance, and those unlikely to be placed at increased adverse event risk by maintaining current levels of vigilance, presents an opportunity to improve patient safety. Retrospective critical indicator models identifying home care patients who have experienced an adverse event can be used to estimate adverse event incidence rates and changes in rates over time.

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L'identification des facteurs predictifs de la reunification familiale des adolescents places represente un prealable a une pratique plus efficace. Cette etude exploratoire consiste en une analyse des dossiers de 102 adolescents places dans une ressource de readaptation du CJM-IU. L'echantillon est compose de deux groupes: un groupe d'adolescents reunifies (n=51) et un groupe d'adolescents non reunifies (n=51). Elle poursuit trois objectifs: definir le portrait des adolescents; explorer et identifier les facteurs associes a la reunification familiale; elaborer un modele de facteurs qui predit la reunification familiale d'un adolescent. En concordance avec la litterature et le cadre ecosystemique de l'etude, cinq categories de facteurs sont analysees: les facteurs lies a l'adolescent, aux parents, a la famille et a l'environnement, a l'intervention et a l'histoire et aux conditions de placement. / Les resultats demontrent que c'est davantage au plan des facteurs lies a l'intervention, a l'histoire et aux conditions de placement que des differences entre les adolescents reunifies et les adolescents non reunifies s'observent. Les analyses de regression logistique ont conduit a l'elaboration de deux modeles de prediction de la reunification familiale. Le premier modele revele une combinaison de cinq facteurs: la duree du placement, la possibilite de sortie dans le milieu familial, le nombre d'episodes de placement, l'origine ethnoculturelle et la presence d'un suivi concurrent ou consecutif en LPJ et LJC. Ce modele comporte une limite puisqu'il considere seulement les facteurs sans donnee manquante. Le second modele, elabore a partir de tous les facteurs, revele une configuration de trois facteurs: l'implication parentale, l'origine ethnoculturelle et l'ambivalence de la mere. Au plan de la recherche, ces resultats demontrent la necessite de poursuivre les travaux, en conduisant des etudes longitudinales, employant l'analyse de survie; en interrogeant directement les acteurs impliques; et en explorant la relation d'association entre l'origine ethnoculturelle et la reunification familiale. Au plan de l'intervention, ces resultats soutiennent la necessite de systematiser la pratique de la reunification familiale; consolider le reseau familial du jeune; developper des programmes de reunification familiale; revoir les modalites d'organisation des ressources d'hebergement; et diversifier l'offre de services.