A5026033494- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Diabetes Management and Research
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
- Global Health Care Issues
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Wound Healing and Treatments
- Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
- Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management
- Health and Well-being Studies
University of Alberta
2015-2024
Alliance for Canadian Health Outcomes Research in Diabetes
2012-2019
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
2019
AbbVie (United States)
2019
EuroQol Research Foundation
2019
RTI International
2019
Committee on Publication Ethics
2019
Athabasca University
2015
Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes
2014
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2014
Aims and objectives This study investigated nurses' roles their perspectives on the factors that influence interdisciplinary teamwork within Canadian primary care setting. Background Interdisciplinary teams have shown to lead better system‐ patient‐level outcomes and, accordingly, became important aspects of healthcare systems especially settings. Nurses play a key role in these teams, particularly with respect chronic disease management. Design A focused ethnography design using...
OBJECTIVE Depressive symptoms are common and, when coexisting with diabetes, worsen outcomes and increase health care costs. We evaluated a nurse case-manager–based collaborative primary team model to improve depressive in diabetic patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS conducted controlled implementation trial four nonmetropolitan networks. Eligible patients had type 2 diabetes screened positive for symptoms, based on Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) score of ≥10. Patients were allocated...
Abstract Many healthcare systems around the world have been increasingly using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in routine measurement to enhance patient-centered care and incorporate patient’s perspective health system performance evaluation. One of key steps PROMs is selecting appropriate measure(s) serve purpose context measurement. However, availability many makes this choice rather challenging. Our aim was provide an integrated approach for PROM(s) selection use by end-users...
The use of the interactive communication loop has been recommended as an effective method to enhance patient understanding and recall information.The aim study was examine application loops, jargon, impact health literacy (HL) when nurses provide education counseling patients with type 2 diabetes in primary care setting Alberta, Canada.Encounters between were audio recorded, a survey including HL measure administered. Topics within each interaction coded based on five key components...
Inadequate health literacy has been associated with poorer behaviors and outcomes in individuals diabetes or depression. This study was conducted to examine the associations between inadequate behavioral cardiometabolic parameters type 2 explore whether these are affected by concurrent The authors used cross-sectional data from a of 343 predominantly African Americans diabetes. significantly modestly knowledge (r = -0.34) but weakly self-efficacy 0.16) depressive symptoms 0.24). In...
Kidney failure requiring dialysis is associated with poor health outcomes and health-related quality of life (HRQL). Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) capture symptom burden, level functioning other from a patient perspective, can support clinicians to monitor disease progression, address symptoms, facilitate patient-centered care. While evidence suggests the use PROMs in clinical practice lead improved experience some settings, impact on patients' experiences not fully understood,...
When depression accompanies diabetes, it complicates treatment, portends worse outcomes and increases health care costs. A collaborative case-management model, previously tested in an urban managed organization the US, achieved significant reduction of depressive symptoms, improved diabetes disease control patient-reported outcomes, saved money. While impressive, these findings need to be replicated extended other healthcare settings. Our objective is comprehensively evaluate a model for...
Abstract Background As a generic measure of health-related quality life among patients awaiting THA or TKA, the three-level version EQ-5D (EQ-5D-3L), which has three response levels severity (no problems, some and extreme problems/unable) to five questions, is widely used. Previous studies indicated that ceiling effect EQ-5D-3L limits its application. The five-level (EQ-5D-5L) was developed enhance measurement properties tool by adding two levels: slight problems severe problems. However,...