What patients share with the care team can make all the difference. PROMs - Patient Reported Outcome Measures - are extremely useful, but can raise questions and concerns among patients. Here's a microsite that explains what PROMs are and why they are useful. Explanations, testimonials, podcasts and myths are covered, in both French and English.
Discover the fundamentals of patient partnership, address the issue of roles and responsibilities in this partnership context, develop knowledge in recruiting, welcoming, training and supporting patient partners, and see the impact of patient partnership.
Driven by its desire to support the deployment of a healthcare system that continuously learns and improves, the Unit undertook a consultation exercise aimed at developing a model that would be inspiring, useful and empowering for family medicine groups.
What is continuous quality improvement (CQI) in health and social services? What are its impacts? How can CQI approaches be implemented? The Position Statement on CQI answers these questions and proposes concrete recommendations.
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.
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.
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.
How to make a success of an organizational participatory research project? Here is an interactive guide outlining the challenges and solutions, with concrete examples.
This is a guide to help members of the public understand what to do depending on the nature of their respiratory infection symptoms. It is available in five languages.
Here is a questionnaire designed to help healthcare organizations assess their current level of readiness to implement a learning healthcare system approach.
Discover how the Unit supports the deployment of a healthcare system that continuously learns and improves, and how it contributes to the improvement of the quintuple aim through the analogy of the beehive.
By following these guidelines, research teams can ensure that people with lived experience of mental health and/ or substance use and their families contributions are genuinely valued and effectively integrated, ultimately enhancing the quality and impact of the research and fostering authentic collaboration.
On the whole, decision aids help indecisive patients more, and improve congruence between choices and personal values. They improve patients' realistic expectations of the advantages and disadvantages of available options.
In Canada and internationally, there is a growing interest in value-based healthcare and a growing belief that learning health systems are a critical strategy for supporting and accelerating health system transformations that create value. But what is a learning health system and how can it create value for the population?