Transitions and Boundaries in the Coordination and Reform of Health Services
Building Knowledge, Strategy and Leadership
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Open AccessProfessional identity work of nurse practitioners and family physicians in primary care in Quebec and Ontario – a study protocol
Solo medical practices in primary healthcare delivery have been abandoned in favor of interdisciplinary teamwork in most Western countries. Dynamics in interdisciplinary teams might however be particularly dif...
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Factors affecting perceived credibility of assessment in medical education: A sco** review
Assessment is more educationally effective when learners engage with assessment processes and perceive the feedback received as credible. With the goal of optimizing the educational value of assessment in medi...
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Evaluating Usability in Blended Learning Programs Within Health Professions Education: a Sco** Review
Knowledge was mapped about how usability has been applied in the evaluation of blended learning programs within health professions education. Across 80 studies, usability was explicitly mentioned once but alwa...
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Open AccessContinuing professional education of Iranian healthcare professionals in shared decision-making: lessons learned
In this study, we sought to assess healthcare professionals’ acceptance of and satisfaction with a shared decision making (SDM) educational workshop, its impact on their intention to use SDM, and their perceiv...
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Open AccessUser-centered and theory-based design of a professional training program on shared decision-making with older adults living with neurocognitive disorders: a mixed-methods study
We know little about the best approaches to design training for healthcare professionals. We thus studied how user-centered and theory-based design contribute to the development of a distance learning program ...
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Open AccessProfessional training on shared decision making with older adults living with neurocognitive disorders: a mixed-methods implementation study
Shared decision making with older adults living with neurocognitive disorders is challenging for primary healthcare professionals. We studied the implementation of a professional training program featuring an ...
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Open AccessUse of patients’ unsolicited correspondence to a family doctor to describe and understand valued components of a doctor-patient relationship: A Hermeneutics approach
Communication and behavior within doctor - patient encounters have been examined using varied techniques; however the nature of unsolicited writings from patients to their family doctors has rarely been report...
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Open AccessTailoring and evaluating an intervention to improve shared decision-making among seniors with dementia, their caregivers, and healthcare providers: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
The increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia raises new challenges to ensure that healthcare decisions are informed by research evidence and reflect what is important for senior...
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Open AccessFive shared decision-making tools in 5 months: use of rapid reviews to develop decision boxes for seniors living with dementia and their caregivers
Decision support tools build upon comprehensive and timely syntheses of literature. Rapid reviews may allow supporting their development by omitting certain components of traditional systematic reviews. We thu...
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Erratum to: To walk or not to walk: insights from a qualitative description study with women suffering from fibromyalgia
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To walk or not to walk: insights from a qualitative description study with women suffering from fibromyalgia
Walking improves health outcomes in fibromyalgia; however, there is low adherence to this practice. The aim of this research was to explore the beliefs of women suffering from fibromyalgia toward walking, and ...
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Open AccessInitiating decision-making conversations in palliative care: an ethnographic discourse analysis
Conversations about end-of-life care remain challenging for health care providers. The tendency to delay conversations about care options represents a barrier that impedes the ability of terminally-ill patient...
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Open AccessFamily physicians’ professional identity formation: a study protocol to explore impression management processes in institutional academic contexts
Despite significant differences in terms of medical training and health care context, the phenomenon of medical students’ declining interest in family medicine has been well documented in North America and in ...
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Open AccessStories and metaphors in the sensemaking of multiple primary health care organizational identities
The Quebec primary health care delivery system has experienced numerous reforms over the last 15 years. In this study, we sought to examine how managers and primary care providers made sense of the creation of...
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Open AccessHow can continuing professional development better promote shared decision-making? Perspectives from an international collaboration
Shared decision-making is not widely implemented in healthcare. We aimed to set a research agenda about promoting shared decision-making through continuing professional development.
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Open AccessUnderstanding managerial behaviour during initial steps of a clinical information system adoption
While the study of the information technology (IT) implementation process and its outcomes has received considerable attention, the examination of pre-adoption and pre-implementation stages of configurable IT ...
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Open AccessThe implementation evaluation of primary care groups of practice: a focus on organizational identity
Since 2002 the Health Ministry of Québec (Canada) has been implementing a primary care organizational innovation called 'family medicine groups'. This is occurring in a political context in which the reorganiz...
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Managing Across Boundaries in Health Care: The Forces for Change and Inertia
The problem of managing across boundaries is nowhere more urgent or more complex than in the health care field. On the one hand, there is wide recognition that aging populations, economic pressures, and new te...
