In a learning health system, all forces come together to eliminate working in isolation. There is a partnership between:
- Research
- Healthcare
- Social services
- Management
- The population
Our services
- Implementation support and patient/public partnership issues
- Assistance in identifying and recruiting patient partners and members of the public
- Education of patient partners, members of the public and professional research staff
- Coaching of patient partners, members of the public and professional research staff
- Process and outcome evaluation of the research partnership with patients and the public
- Support for the implementation of the partnership in clinical settings
- Outils
- Formations
- Patient partners community Expériences

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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.
News
See allMr. Kenneth George, patient partner, passes away
Karina Prévost named co-leader of patient-partner community Expériences
Quebecers believe that the well-being of health care teams and science should guide health care decisions above all else
Webinar on ENGAGE: a project to involve low-literacy patients in research
Deliverables and tools
See allInclusive Practices in Participatory or Partnership-based Research with socially excluded persons
Find out what's a learning health system in 60 seconds
An Indigenous Patient Circle is launched in Quebec
ENGAGE: participatory methods and visual and auditory tools to get vulnerable populations involved in research
Publications
See allExpériences Magazine: living with illness and care
Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec has published its 2014–2021 activity report for the community
How to meaningfully and equitably involve patients and the public in scaling up: upcoming publication of a study protocol
CLARET project on meta consent to use health data in research: preliminary results
Videos
See allFind out what's a learning health system in 60 seconds
COVID-19 video – Being a caregiver who contributes to research: how and why?
COVID-19 video: Patient-oriented research in a pandemic: how and why?
COVID-19 video: What does it mean to be a patient partner during the pandemic?
Themes
See allConsent
Québec's health system
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-Anne Fillion.
Marie-Anne Fillion
Patient Partner – Partnership branch of the SSA-RUISSS team Université de Montréal
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