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Private Surgical Centres: An Outlet for Hospitals Bursting at the Seams?

Wait times for planned surgeries have increased beyond clinical recommendations in Canadian provinces for many surgeries. The causes of lengthening wait times are complex, but provinces have increasingly turned to contracts with private surgical centres to increase the number of surgeries. Jason Sutherland and Trafford Crump provide commentary reviewing key policy issues associated with provincial governments contracting for-profit surgical centres through the lens of the Quadruple Aim framework.

Sutherland JS, Crump T. Private Surgical Centres: An Outlet for Hospitals Bursting at the Seams? Commentary. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Aug 2025. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0449917. Read more

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Guo M, Mourad N, Karimuddin A, Sutherland J. Comparing Preoperative Healthcare Utilization Between Immigrants and Non-Immigrants Undergoing Emergency General Surgery in British Columbia. J Immigr Minor Health. 2026 Jan 12. doi: 10.1007/s10903-026-01847-6. Online ahead of print. Read more

Katz A, Aubrey-Bassler K, Aghajafari F, Fransoo G, Ivers NM, Kwong JC, Moineddin R, Nguyen L, Saj D, Taylor C, Upshur REG, Woodrow J, Wong ST, Xiong H, Aggarwal M. The impact of COVID-19 vaccine distribution channels on equity-deserving populations: a Canadian population-based cohort study using administrative data. BMC Public Health. 2026 Jan 9. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-24824-4. Online ahead of print. Read more

Buttar A, Hu N, Sobolev B, Kuromoto L, Jessri M. Alignment with Front-of-Package Labelling Policy and Risk of Hospitalization: Evidence from Canadian National Nutrition Survey Linked to Routinely Collected Health Administrative Databases. Am J Clin Nutr. 2026 Jan 8:101191. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.101191. Online ahead of print. Read more

Dev R, O'Neill Z, Norris CM, Raparelli V, Sarkar S, Pilote L. Association Between Educational Attainment and Overweight/Obesity in Eight South Asian Countries: A Systematic Review. Asia Pac J Public Health. 2026 Jan 6:10105395251409934. doi: 10.1177/10105395251409934. Online ahead of print. Read more

Shuldiner J, Ragunathan A, Mohammed J, Khan A, Hare N, Meninato T, Haggerty J, Garber G, Reid RJ, Andiappan M, Martin D, Kaplan D, Kiran T, Hysong SJ, Wong ST, Zhao QJ, Sherlock C, Légaré F, Ivers N. Elevating an invisible role: co-designing solutions to optimize medical office assistants in primary care. BMC Prim Care. 2026 Jan 6. doi: 10.1186/s12875-025-03155-8. Online ahead of print. Read more

Giroux CM, Bush PL, Alkhaldi M, Talla PK, Couturier Y, Thomas A, Bussières A, Wong ST, Poitras ME, Ahmed S. Assessing healthcare organizations' readiness to implement a learning health system: questionnaire validation using a Delphi method. BMC Health Serv Res. 2025 Dec 29;25(1):1626. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-13636-2. Read more

Zhao B, Cohen TR, Sutherland J, Meza R, Bhatti P, Murphy RA. Examining the associations between the food environment and dietary intake in British Columbia: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 2025 Dec 25;15(12):e109478. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-109478. Read more

Bond M, Beresford A, Noonan VK, Rotem-Kohavi N, Kwon BK, Liu G, Sutherland JM. Longitudinal healthcare utilization among traumatic spinal cord injury patients: a 20 year retrospective study using population-based data. BMC Health Serv Res. 2025 Dec 15. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-13895-z. Online ahead of print. Read more

Yusuf FLA, Karim ME, Sutherland JM, Zhu F, Zhao Y, Marrie RA, Tremlett H. Injury Preceding the Classical Recognition of Multiple Sclerosis: A Population-Based Study. Ann Epidemiol. 2025 Dec 5:S1047-2797(25)00340-0. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2025.11.008. Online ahead of print. Read more

D'souza NA, Rao S, Marchand K, Davies M, Dryburgh NSJ, Radomski AD, Aggarwal P, Mulligan C, Stringer JE, Austin A, Edwards J, Leach MD. Redesigning mental health research systems from within: the role of peer-led co-production. Front Health Serv. 2025 Dec 2;5:1712015. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2025.1712015. eCollection 2025. Read more

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