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Open AccessUnderstanding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the care experiences of people with mental-physical multimorbidity: protocol for a mixed methods study
Primary care and other health services have been disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the consequences of these service disruptions on patients’ care experiences remain largely unstudied. People with me...
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Open AccessInequities in the delivery of mental health care: a grounded theory study of the policy context of primary care
Strengthening capacity for mental health in primary care improves health outcomes by providing timely access to coordinated and integrated mental health care. The successful integration of mental health in pri...
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Open AccessTheory-based approach to develo** an implementation plan to support the adoption of a patient decision aid for Down syndrome prenatal screening
Our team has developed a decision aid to help pregnant women and their partners make informed decisions about Down syndrome prenatal screening. However, the decision aid is not yet widely available in Quebec’s...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the positive outcomes of discharge planning interventions for older adults hospitalized following a fall: a realist synthesis
Older adults hospitalized following a fall often encounter preventable adverse events when transitioning from hospital to home. Discharge planning interventions developed to prevent these events do not all pro...
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Open AccessEvaluating implementation and impact of a provincial quality improvement collaborative for the management of chronic diseases in primary care: the COMPAS+ study protocol
Chronic conditions such as diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are common and burdensome diseases primarily managed in primary care. Yet, evidence points to suboptimal quality of care for...
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Open AccessA framework for value-creating learning health systems
Interest in value-based healthcare, generally defined as providing better care at lower cost, has grown worldwide, and learning health systems (LHSs) have been proposed as a key strategy for improving value in...
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Open AccessEarly career researchers’ perspectives and roles in patient-oriented research
Patient-oriented research (POR) has received increasing attention in recent years. In this approach, patients’ experiential knowledge, derived from their experiences of living with a condition or illness and o...
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Open AccessPregnant women’s views on how to promote the use of a decision aid for Down syndrome prenatal screening: a theory-informed qualitative study
For pregnant women and their partners, the decision to undergo Down syndrome prenatal screening is difficult. Patient decision aids (PtDA) can help them make an informed decision. We aimed to identify behaviou...
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Open AccessInvolving members of vulnerable populations in the development of patient decision aids: a mixed methods sequential explanatory study
Patient decision aids aim to present evidence relevant to a health decision in understandable ways to support patients through the process of making evidence-informed, values-congruent health decisions. It is ...
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Open AccessImpact of home care versus alternative locations of care on elder health outcomes: an overview of systematic reviews
Many elders struggle with the decision to remain at home or to move to an alternative location of care. A person’s location of care can influence health and wellbeing. Healthcare organizations and policy maker...
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Open AccessMore primary care patients regret health decisions if they experienced decisional conflict in the consultation: a secondary analysis of a multicenter descriptive study
We sought to estimate the extent of decision regret among primary care patients and identify risk factors associated with regret.
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Open AccessDevelopment of a decision guide to support the elderly in decision making about location of care: an iterative, user-centered design
For the elderly to get the care and services they need, they may need to make the difficult decision about staying in their home or moving to another home. Many other people may be involved in their care too (...
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Open AccessIn for a penny, in for a pound: the effect of pre-engaging healthcare organizations on their subsequent participation in trials
Participant recruitment in clinical trials is often challenging. Building partnerships with healthcare organizations during proposal development facilitates access to the community and may influence its subseq...
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Open AccessCapacity development in health systems and policy research: a survey of the Canadian context
Over the past decade, substantial global investment has been made to support health systems and policy research (HSPR), with considerable resources allocated to training. In Canada, signs point to a larger and...
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A Pan-Canadian Evaluation of Supported Employment Programs Dedicated to People with Severe Mental Disorders
Supported employment (SE) is an evidence-based practice that helps people with severe mental disorders obtain competitive employment. The implementation of SE programs in different social contexts has led to a...
