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Position statement on continuous quality improvement (CQI)

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.

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.

An interactive guide to help you succeed in Organizational Participatory Research

How to make a success of an organizational participatory research project? Here is an interactive guide outlining the challenges and solutions, with concrete examples.

Self-management guide to acute respiratory infections available in five languages

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.

Self-assessment of readiness to implement an LHS approach

Here is a questionnaire designed to help healthcare organizations assess their current level of readiness to implement a learning healthcare system approach.

The Unité de soutien SSA Québec.. in 3 minutes!

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.

Best Practice Guidelines for Engaging People with Lived Experience in Mental Health/Substance Use Health Research

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.

Systematic Review of Patient Decision Aids

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.

A framework for value-creating learning health systems

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?

MEDomics: Developing AI-powered predictive models for personalized treatments

Developing predictive models for personalized treatments: that’s what MEDomics makes possible. IT specialists are working with clinicians to improve patient care. Learn more.

2023-2024 Activity Report by the Unité de soutien SSA Québec

True to our plans, 2023-2024 was devoted to the construction of scientific and experiential knowledge and, above all, to its application. Discover our scientific program, achievements and future projects in this annual report. Enjoy your reading!

Lessons learned in our rehabilitation facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic: to be ready next time

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of Quebec researchers combined their expertise to conduct an in-depth study on the impact of the crisis in rehabilitation settings designated to receive people who contracted COVID-19. This research highlighted the challenges encountered and the adaptations implemented, resulting in five key recommendations to improve the resilience and effectiveness of these settings in times of crisis.

List of improvements to ease the transition between home and Long-term care facilities (CHSLD)

How to improve the transition between home and Long-term care facilities (CHSLD)? Here is a list of of recommendations.