Assessing the impact of Canadian primary care research and researchers

Our colleagues France Légaré and the late Pierre Pluye are among the fifty most-quoted Canadian primary care researchers in Canada. Robert Reid, author of the Learning Health System Action Framework, is also on this list. It's encouraging to see that the LHS, patient partnership, collaborative research and scaling up, to name but a few, are attracting significant interest.

Teaming 

Denis Côté is a regional continuous quality improvement agent. He is a facilitator in the RUISSS Université Laval territory. In this article, he evokes the transition from a culture of health and social services professionals cooperating without strong cohesion to an intrinsically collaborative organization united around inspiring common intentions.

Enhancing interprofessional collaboration for unattached patients in primary care 

This study shows a significant increase in the delivery of comprehensive care for patients without a regular family doctor, from 13% to 43%, thanks to interprofessional collaboration. Nevertheless, it highlights the need for structural improvements and training to maximize the effectiveness of this collaboration.

Cultural Safety in Indigenous Health Research Context: a report of recommendations drawn from an unprecedented round-table discussion

To define and identify the best ways of conducting culturally safe indigenous health research, placing the voices and knowledge of indigenous people and their allies at the heart of the process. This is the challenge that several partners have set themselves. To achieve this, they organized an unprecedented round table with people representing 10 of the 11 nations present on Quebec territory.

Effects of ethical climate in association with tenure on work addiction, quality of care and staff retention: a cross-sectional study

"The article studies an organizational lever, namely the ethical climate, as a vector of several positive spin-offs, for both caregivers and patients. Considering that the data was collected across Canada during the omicron wave, the article presents an interesting portrait of healthcare networks and the people who make them up in times of crisis." Francis Maisonneuve