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Patient-Public-Organizational Partnership

We help you set up a new partnership approach (recruitment/training) or consult patient partners.

Our services

These services are open to all individuals and organizations involved in healthcare research, care and social services, as well as to the general public.

  • Support the development of a work structure in partnership with patients
  • Support a work team in the reflection, planning and implementation of a project
  • Facilitate and animate exchanges on patient partnerships at discussion tables
  • Support the evaluation of the partnership within the project
  • Support the identification and/or recruitment of patient partners
  • Offer partnership training
    • Offer mentoring
      • Patient
        • Offer individual or group mentoring/training to patients/citizens wishing to become involved as partners.
      • Project team
        • Offer individual or group mentoring/training to teams wishing to become involved as partners.
        • Offer individual or group mentoring/training to patients/citizens wishing to become involved as partners.
  • Support networking with relevant partnership support infrastructures (e.g. partner office, partnership expertise group, etc.).
  • Consult a panel of patient partners
  • Understand the implications of the patient partner role
  • Discuss the benefits of including a patient partner in a project

Participate in or exchange with the community

  • Present your project to Indigenous Patient Partners for consultation (assessment of cultural relevance and safety is a prerequisite)
  • Consult an Indigenous health expert on best practices for establishing links with an indigenous community

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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

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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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Teaming 

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Enhancing interprofessional collaboration for unattached patients in primary care 

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5 Ways Patient Partners Can Be Involved

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Deliverables and tools

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Enhancing interprofessional collaboration for unattached patients in primary care 

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Publications

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

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Teaming 

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Enhancing interprofessional collaboration for unattached patients in primary care 

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Videos

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

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Teaming 

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Enhancing interprofessional collaboration for unattached patients in primary care 

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Decision-making

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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 Camille Bolduc-Boyer.

Camille Bolduc-Boyer

Coordination of the Partnership axis

Portrait of Marie-Anne Fillion.

Marie-Anne Fillion

Patient Partner of the partnership branch of the Université de Montréal SSA-RUISSS team

Portrait of Alex McComber.

Alex McComber

Indigenous Health Care

Portrait of Marie-Dominique Poirier.

Marie-Dominique Poirier

Patient Partner Comanagement of the program for scholarship holders

Portrait of Sonia Lussier.

Sonia Lussier

Patient partner Comanagement of the axis Data to knowledge and of the partnership branch of the McGill SSA-RUISSS team as well as patient co-promotion project ”Care trajectory related to respiratory infections” of the PATIenTS program

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