ENGAGE: participatory methods and visual and auditory tools to get vulnerable populations involved in research

How can you get vulnerable people and those with low literacy levels involved in health research? How can you reduce barriers between university researchers and members of the community? Co-built by community-based organizations and members of the Canadian and international research communities, ENGAGE is a bilingual website offering participatory methods, as well as visual and auditory tools.

Écosanté: enhancing knowledge, competencies and collaboration opportunities related to health economics

Objective Écosanté aims to enhance knowledge, competencies and collaboration opportunities related to health economics, in particular health economic assessment. Team The project is led by a group of health economics experts. A Quebec-wide effort, the project includes researchers from each of the four RUISSSs. It is co-managed by Maude Laberge, assistant professor in the operations […]

Accès RECHERCHE

ACCÈS RECHERCHE is a platform for accessing research facilitation services, developed in partnership with Réseau-1 Québec, to provide research capacity to frontline clinical settings, as well as advisory services to researchers on methodology, clinical realities, writing protocols, recruitment, dissemination, letters of support and cost estimates.

CONECT-6: the first case-finding tool to rapidly identify patients suffering from chronic disease with complex health needs

Dr. Catherine Hudon and her team published a study entitled “CONECT-6: a case-finding tool to identify patients with complex health needs” on the development and validation of the tool in BMC Health and Services Research. This approach will allow for early intervention for those at risk of high use of emergency services.

Webinar on ENGAGE: a project to involve low-literacy patients in research

On June 12, 2020, Christine Loignon, associate professor at the Université de Sherbrooke, Sophie Dupéré, associate professor at Université Laval, and Caroline Leblanc, doctoral student in health sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke, will present the ENGAGE project in a webinar organized by the Quebec Population Health Research Network (QPHRN), under the Social Health Inequalities and Equity grouping.

Best practices to maintain patient engagement in virtual mode

How do you maintain patient engagement in virtual mode? This visual tool designed to help research teams maintain a partner relationship with their patients answers this question. Together, let’s continue to apply the values and principles of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) focusing on patient-oriented research while everyone does their part to #stayhome. […]

Canada-wide survey of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs)

As part of a project to document the use of PROMs and PREMS in Canada, the ISOQOL Canada-PRO special interest group is launching a survey of anyone who has used patient-reported outcome measures and/or patient-reported experience measures (PROMs, PREMs) in their field in Canada.