Expertise

Patient-Public-Organizational Partnership

Deploy regional expert branches for the patient-public-organizational partnership in the four RUISSSs and provincial resources to support the partnership. Offer coaching.
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In a learning health system, all forces come together to eliminate working in isolation. There is a partnership between:

  • Research
  • Care
  • Social Services
  • Management
  • The population

Our services

  • Support patient-public partnership implementation and assist in resolving issues
  • Help identify and recruit patient partners and members of the public
  • Train patient partners, members of the public and professional research staff
  • Coach patient partners, members of the public and professional research staff 
  • Assess the process and benefits of the research partnership with patients and the public
  • Support the implementation of partnerships in clinical settings
  • Tools to guide patient-public partnerships
  • Tools to guide organizational participatory research
  • Tools to raise awareness of the partnership and evaluate, diversify and promote it
  • Tools to facilitate understanding of research and access to frontline health services
  • Training and communities of practice on the ESPACE PROXIMITÉ platform

Our trainings

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Our communities of practice

Patient partners community expériences

The expériences community includes patient partners actively involved in the governance of the patient partnership and strategy as well as directly in research teams. It brings together various members of the Québec health and social services network, including researchers. This initiative comes from the Partnership Axis of the Unité de soutien SSA Québec and the Centre of Excellence in Partnership with Patients and the Public (CEPPP).

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Community of fellows

This community gathers FRQ fellows who are participating in the complementary training and capacity building program on patient-oriented research, the learning health system, trajectories of care and the quintuple aim, in partnership with the Fonds de recherche du Québec.

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Marie-Ève Poitras, Inf. Ph. D.

For me, the patient partnership is the very essence of health research. It fulfills my desire as a clinician and researcher to help improve the quality of care for and with patients! It is essential in every way and at all stages of the research process.

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News

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Quebecers believe that the well-being of health care teams and science should guide health care decisions above all else

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

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The Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec announces its COVID-19 services

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A new name and a new website!

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Deliverables and tools

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An Indigenous Patient Circle is launched in Quebec

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

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Rapid and Rigorous TransCultural Adaptation (RR-TCA) methods

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CLARET

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Publications

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Expériences Magazine: living with illness and care

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Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec has published its 2014–2021 activity report for the community

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How to meaningfully and equitably involve patients and the public in scaling up: upcoming publication of a study protocol

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CLARET project on meta consent to use health data in research: preliminary results

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Videos

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Find out what's a learning health system in 60 seconds

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COVID-19 video – Being a caregiver who contributes to research: how and why?

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COVID-19 video: Patient-oriented research in a pandemic: how and why?

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COVID-19 video: What does it mean to be a patient partner during the pandemic?

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Themes

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Consent

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Québec's health system

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Service request

When you apply for support from the Unité de soutien SSA Québec, you are taking part in the emergence of a learning health system (LHS). We offer three types of support: training, consultation and tools.

Team

Portrait of Marie-Dominique Poirier.

Marie-Dominique Poirier

Codirection Patient Partner – Axis Capacity Building

Portrait of Paul Nadeau.

Paul Nadeau

Patient Partner to the Executive Team

Portrait of Philippe Karazivan.

Philippe Karazivan

Manager – Partnership branch of the SSA-RUISSS team Université de Montréal

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