- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Peripheral Artery Disease Management
- Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Alberta Health Services
2016-2024
Population Health Research Institute
2024
Hamilton Health Sciences
2024
McMaster University
2024
Deleted Institution
2023
Alberta Health
2021
University of Alberta
2011
Stroke rehabilitation is a progressive, dynamic, goal-orientated process aimed at enabling person with impairment to reach their optimal physical, cognitive, emotional, communicative, social and/or functional activity level. After stroke, patients often continue require for persistent deficits related spasticity, upper and lower extremity dysfunction, shoulder central pain, mobility/gait, dysphagia, vision, communication. Each year in Canada 62,000 people experience stroke. Among stroke...
Home-time is a patient-prioritized stroke outcome that can be derived from administrative data linkages. The effect of faster time-to-treatment with endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) on home-time after acute unknown.
Entry-level healthcare practitioners must be able to engage in critical thinking, life long learning and autonomous accountable within the complex demands of 21st century. However, structuring opportunities foster these skills pre-qualification curriculum can challenging. To-date, little evidence exists literature guide educators. This case report discusses how an elective module therapeutic use digital photography for Master Science occupational therapy (MScOT) students was designed enable...
We examined the return on investment (ROI) from Endovascular Reperfusion Alberta (ERA) project, a provincially funded population-wide strategy to improve access endovascular therapy (EVT), inform policy regarding sustainability.We calculated net benefit (NB) as minus cost and ROI divided by cost. Patients treated with EVT their controls were identified ESCAPE trial. Using provincial administrative databases, health services utilization (HSU), including inpatient, outpatient, physician,...
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Hyperacute treatment of acute stroke may lead to thrombolysis in mimics (SM). Our aim was determine the frequency SM primary centers (PSC) dependent on telestroke versus comprehensive (CSC).Retrospective review prospectively collected data from Quality improvement and Clinical Research (QuICR) registry, Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), The National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) consecutive patients treated with intravenous for ischemic Alberta (Canada) April 2016 March 2021.A...