A5080712135- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Education Systems and Policy
- Family Support in Illness
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Lymphadenopathy Diagnosis and Analysis
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Delphi Technique in Research
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Vitamin D Research Studies
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
University of Calgary
2014-2025
Aga Khan University
2024
Temple Group (United Kingdom)
2023
Calgary Laboratory Services
2023
Ziauddin University
2023
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2023
Punjab Medical College
2022
Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta
2014-2019
Alberta Kidney Disease Network
2014-2019
Institute for Community Health
2018
In patient-oriented research (POR), patients contribute their valuable knowledge and lived-experiences to work together as active partners at all stages of the health cycle. However, looking understand how patient (PRPs) researchers in meaningful collaborative ways remains limited. This study aims evaluate engagement with RePORT Patient Advisory Council (PAC) identify barriers facilitators encountered within partnerships involving researchers.The PAC members included nine PRPs...
ContextTimely palliative care can alleviate distress after diagnosis of an incurable cancer. However, late referrals to continue, reflecting various provider and patient barriers.ObjectiveTo determine patient/caregiver-reported acceptability a phone call offering supportive (SPC) consultation without requiring oncologist referral.MethodsTwo SPC nurses screened out-patient clinic lists at tertiary cancer center weekly called all eligible patients offer consultation. Eligibility: >18 years,...
Cancer inequities such as late access to cancer screening and diagnosis affect people of African Latin American descent in Canada. These addition experiences racism discrimination unequal living working conditions are detrimental their wellness. We aim delineate together with a patient-oriented pathway improve equity wellness care. This is 3-year community-based participatory research study. The study will take place Alberta Ontario involve 125 participants including cancer, family community...
Person-centred care (PCC) has been shown to improve health outcomes. The inclusion and incorporation of person-centredness in a growing priority for healthcare organizations across Canada. Person-Centred Care Quality Indicators (PC-QI) evaluate what extent various PCC elements have integrated into organizations. Using the first PC-QI, content analysis was performed on mission, vision, core value statements 54 assess whether is being included as strategic decision-making Canadian system....
Performance indicators are used to evaluate the quality of healthcare services. The majority these, however, derived solely from administrative data and rarely incorporate feedback patients who receive Recently, our research team developed person-centred (PC-QIs), which were co-created with patients. It is unknown whether these PC-QIs associated unplanned use following discharge hospital.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Patient experience surveys provide feedback regarding the perceived quality of health care services. Unfortunately, many have tended to be focused on an adult population, resulting in a lack validated instruments for pediatric populations. In 2015, Alberta Health Services implemented Child Hospital Consumer Assessment Healthcare Providers and Systems (Child HCAHPS) survey. Our objectives current study were describe use HCAHPS survey Alberta, Canada, present...
Background The Palliative Care Early and Systematic (PaCES) program implemented an early palliative care pathway for advanced colorectal cancer patients in January 2019, to increase specialist consultation homecare referrals more than three months before death. This study aimed understand the experience of with family caregivers who received supports from a nurse compared those experiences participants experienced standard oncology prior implementation care. Methods was qualitative...
Abstract Introduction Patient engagement in patient‐oriented research (POR) is described as patients collaborating active and equal team members (patient partners [PRPs]) on the health projects activities that matter to them. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canada's federal funding agency for research, asks be included early, often at many stages process possible. objective this POR project was co‐build an interactive, hands‐on training programme could support PRPs...
Abstract Background Implementing Patient-reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and Experience (PREMs) is an effective way to deliver patient- family-centered care (PFCC). Although Alberta Health Services (AHS) Canada's largest fully integrated health system, PROMs PREMs are yet be routinely into the pediatric healthcare system. This study addresses this gap by investigating current uptake, barriers, enablers for integrating in Alberta's Methods Pediatric clinicians academic researchers with...
Objectives The overall goal of this study is to identify priorities for cardiovascular (CV) health research that are important patients and clinician-researchers. We brought together a group CV clinician-researchers new patient-oriented (POR), build multidisciplinary POR team form an advisory committee the Libin Cardiovascular Institute Alberta. Design This qualitative used participatory paradigm work with participants in eliciting their priorities. Therefore, were involved priority setting,...
Background Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life patients and families facing challenges associated with life-threatening illness. In order to effectively deliver palliative care, patient caregiver priorities need be incorporated in advanced cancer care. Aim This study identified experiences living colorectal their caregivers inform development early pathway. Design Qualitative patient-oriented study. Settings/participants Patients receiving at two centres were...
Abstract Purpose Timely access to supportive and palliative care (PC) remains a challenge. A proposed solution is trigger an automatic referral process PC by pre-determined clinical criteria. This study sought co-design with patients providers for newly diagnosed stage IV lung cancer. Methods In Step 1 of this work, nine one on phone interviews were conducted advanced cancer their perspectives the acceptability contact specialist provider triggered process. Interviews thematically analysed....
The Child-Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (Child-HCAHPS) survey is a validated measure paediatric inpatient experience. study objective was to determine which questions were most correlated with respondents' overall rating care. Knowing are important may provide valuable insights for developing targeted quality improvement initiatives.Within 6 weeks discharge, 3,389 telephone surveys completed by parents/guardians children who hospitalized at least 24 hours....
Abstract Background and aims Patient‐centered care (PCC) benefits patients, health‐care providers, systems by providing delivery of that addresses patient values needs while improving provider experiences, decreasing expenditure. To improve PCC, need to measure it. Recently, we developed a PCC framework is evidence based informed. The purpose this study was gather the perspective clinician‐scientists quality improvement experts regarding domains included in framework. Their perspectives were...
A positive and successful transition into University is crucial if students are to stay the course in higher education experience outcomes. However, challenges exist ensuring a connected from secondary further that inclusive supports diversity our current undergraduate student body. We set out explore diverse experiences first year report about their recent post-1992 University. were particularly interested how these differed by ethnicity. This incredibly important given disparity,...