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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?
MEDomicsLab: Integrative Modeling of Heterogeneous Data in Medicine
Developing predictive models for personalized treatments: that's what MEDomicsLab is all about. Informatics specialists work with clinicians to improve care. Find out 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.
Self-reported well-being assessment approach for healthcare workers
How can we assess the self-reported well-being of healthcare workers? Here is an approach and the study that made it possible.
Learning Health System Leaders in Quebec's 4 University Health and Social Services Networks
Working closely with the scientific co-directors of their respective SSA-RUISSS teams, the LHS leaders will play a key role in facilitating the networking and mobilization of players in their field.
ISSaQ 4.0: Innovation Scalability Self-Administered Questionnaire
The ISSaQ 4.0 tool enables health and social services innovation teams to assess the scaling potential of their innovations. It is a self-administered questionnaire.
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.