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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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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

Sutherland JM. Canada's Hospitals Under Stress: Is More Money the Only Answer? Healthc Policy. 2025 Nov;21(1):6-18. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2025.27745. Read more

Goranitis I, Hayeems RZ, Smith HS, Buchanan J, Weymann D, Regier DA, Mackley MP, Scott RH, Hill SL, Chung BHY, Chung CCY, Best S, Baple EL, Stark Z. Determining the value of genomics in healthcare. Nat Med. 2025 Nov 27. doi: 10.1038/s41591-025-04061-3. Online ahead of print. Read more

Chen QJ, Mozaffari H, Ananthapavan J, Smith BT, Wong GWK, Jessri M. What is the effect of commercial food and non-alcoholic beverage marketing on the dietary intake of children and adolescents? Protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis with an equity lens. Syst Rev. 2025 Nov 26;14(1):238. doi: 10.1186/s13643-025-02978-x. Read more

Marchand K, Liu G, Hastings KG, Palis H, Mathias S, Sutherland JM, Barbic S. The multidimensional social ecological needs and service utilization patterns of youth using non-medical prescription opioids: an observational study of routinely collected data in a provincial integrated youth services initiative. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2025 Nov 26;20(1):51. doi: 10.1186/s13011-025-00682-6. Read more

Turner AM, Taylor JO, Child CE, Regier DA. Developing an Accessible Discrete Choice Survey to Identify Supportive Care Preferences of Older Adults with Dementia. Value Health. 2025 Nov 14:S1098-3015(25)05682-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2025.10.015. Online ahead of print. Read more

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