Manitoba's Health Information and Knowledge Network (MHIKNET)

The Community Guide (www.thecommunityguide.org) is a free resource from the epidemiology branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US. It provides summaries and recommendations from systematic reviews that they conduct on broad public health topics.
The Community Guide is a great place to look for answers to questions on:

New guidelines for breast cancer screening have been released by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care and published in the CMAJ.Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40-74 years. CMAJ. 2011; 183 (17): 1991- 2001. Available from: http://www.cmaj.ca/content/183/17/1991

Three freely available reports you may be interested in are:

As part of Canadian Patient Safety Week, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute has just released an updated version of the Canadian Disclosure Guidelines: Being Open with Patients and Families.

The Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety has two new resources that are being promoted as part of Canadian Patient Safety Week:

This new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) profiles acute inpatient care for people who live in sparsely populated health authorities in Western Canada and the contribution of sparsely populated health authorities to the provision of this care.

 
https://secure.cihi.ca/estore/productFamily.htm?locale=en&pf=PFC1657&WT.ac=eNews_to_CIHI_e

The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy has released the report - Adult Obesity in Manitoba, which can be downloaded here: http://mchp-appserv.cpe.umanitoba.ca/deliverablesList.html. 

The Saskatchewan Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) assembled case studies that highlight knowledge translation (KT) initiatives.
Innovations in Knowledge Translation: the SPHERU KT Casebook. 2011 June.

Have you registered for Canadian Patient Safety Week?
 
It takes place October 31 - November 4, 2011. To register and for more information visit the Canadian Patient Safety Week website.
 

The 2011 Canadian Health Accreditation Report focuses on governance and its relationship to quality and patient safety. Data collected from the application of Accreditation Canada's Governance Standards and the governance Functioning Tool survey for board members provide a comprehensive picture of governance in Canadian health care. View the full report at: www.accreditation.ca/news-and-publications/publications/canadian-health-...