title: Accountability: unpacking the suitcase.
abstract: "Accountability" is the suitcase word in Canadian healthcare. As policy-makers, managers, researchers and providers, we pack accountability with meaning, carry it around with us and open it up to explain everything from the quality of our relationships with and expectations of one another, to our requirements for more transparency in the use of resources, to our diagnosis of problems and remedies for improving our healthcare system.
authors.affiliation: Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care.
authors.forename: Adalsteinn D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Porcellato
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barnsley
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006291:Health Policy; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D008330:Management Audit; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D012941:Social Responsibility