title: Quality through health policy: the Canadian example.
abstract: In Canada, as elsewhere, healthcare policymakers are being asked to make some tough tradeoffs between quality and cost. It is crucial that national nurses' associations take part in these discussions to ensure that nurses' and consumers' interests are well protected. The Canadian Nurses' Association has helped mould national health policy. In the process it has had all the advantages of influence and all the risks of being co-opted by the system itself. Below, an insight into the knowledge gained.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Baumgart
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D006291:Health Policy; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011050:Policy Making; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012956:Societies, Nursing