Assessing the sustainability and scalability of a diabetes eHealth innovation: a mixed-methods study
What factors influence the sustainability and scalability potential of the MyDiabetesPlan tool?
Tools for assessing the scalability of innovations in health: a systematic review
Here is a systematic review aimed at inventorying the tools available for assessing the potential for scaling up health innovations.
Shared Decision-Making Training for Home Care Teams to Engage Frail Older Adults and Caregivers in Housing Decisions: Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial
Is the dissemination of a decision-making tool sufficient to support the complex decisions that must be made by elderly people with declining autonomy and their loved ones, or is training in shared decision-making necessary?
Scaling Up Citizen Workshops in Public Libraries to Disseminate and Discuss Primary Care Research Results: Quasi-Experimental Study
Discover a pilot project that has established a large-scale, effective, and collaborative dissemination practice between researchers, clinicians, and citizens.
Implementation Strategies for Knowledge Products in Primary Health Care: Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews
When health knowledge products are misused—either too much or too little—the entire system wastes resources, including in primary care. This study explores which products are actually applied, how they are applied, and what impacts are measured.
Assessing the scalability of innovations in primary care: a cross-sectional study
This study explores how innovators in primary care assess the scalability potential of their innovations in Quebec.
The pitfalls of scaling up evidence-based interventions in health
This article aims to raise awareness of key pitfalls to anticipate when planning for scalability, drawing on experiences from both low- and middle-income countries and high-income countries.
Assessment of scalability of evidence-based innovations in community-based primary health care: a cross-sectional study
In 2013, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research supported twelve teams to develop evidence-based innovations in primary health care and assess their scalability. This study aimed to explore the scalability of these innovations.
Effective strategies for scaling up evidence-based practices in primary care: a systematic review
A wide range of evidence-based practices have the potential to improve patient outcomes, but little is known about how to implement them at scale. This study aimed to identify effective strategies for scaling up evidence-based practices in primary care.
2024-2025 Activity Report by the Unité de soutien SSA Québec
In 2024-2025, we consolidated our role as a liaison within Quebec's health and social services network. We strengthened our ability to bridge scientific knowledge, experiential knowledge, and practices, while ensuring a strategic connection with public policy. Enjoy your reading!
Guidelines on compensation for patients partners of the Unité de soutien SSA Québec
The most recent version of the Unit’s guideline on compensation for patient partners was approved by its Steering Committee on October 7, 2024. It aims to standardize the remuneration of patient partners from the Unit’s funds in the interests of fairness, recognition, and alignment with the guidelines of the Ministry of Health and Social Services […]
Bridging the Gap Between Science, Experience, Practice, and Public Policy
Position statements and recommendations from the Unité de soutien SSA Québec to ensure that decisions are based on knowledge.
A longitudinal project investigates the biological, psychological, and social signatures of patients visiting the emergency of the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal
The Signature Biobank offers a rich and unprecedented space for exploration and study for researchers from Quebec and around the world. It stores administrative biological and psychosocial data collected from patients who visited the IUSMM emergency department between 2012 and 2020. The same biological and psychosocial data were collected from a control group with no psychiatric history.
What if Project Management Could Address the Major Challenges of Research?
Project management is sometimes perceived as an administrative constraint, a rigid framework that stifles creativity. However, when adapted to the specificities of research, it becomes a strategic lever to structure, optimize, and accelerate work.
Care trajectories of people with mood disorders in Quebec
The prevalence of mood disorders has increased worldwide, but there is heterogeneity in the use of healthcare services. Scientists have identified four trajectories of care and classified people with mood disorders into service utilization groups to help decision-makers allocate resources.