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Patient Partnership Guidelines in research and clinical practice

Discover the fundamentals of patient partnership, address the issue of roles and responsibilities in this partnership context, develop knowledge in recruiting, welcoming, training and supporting patient partners, and see the impact of patient partnership.

Apr 14, 2025
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A model designed by and for family medicine groups (FMGs): supportive, concrete and evidence-based

Driven by its desire to support the deployment of a healthcare system that continuously learns and improves, the Unit undertook a consultation exercise aimed at developing a model that would be inspiring, useful and empowering for family medicine groups.

Apr 4, 2025
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Position statement on continuous quality improvement (CQI)

What is continuous quality improvement (CQI) in health and social services? What are its impacts? How can CQI approaches be implemented? The Position Statement on CQI answers these questions and proposes concrete recommendations.

Apr 4, 2025
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A longitudinal project investigates the biological, psychological, and social signatures of patients visiting the emergency of the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal

The Signature Biobank offers a rich and unprecedented space for exploration and study for researchers from Quebec and around the world. It stores administrative biological and psychosocial data collected from patients who visited the IUSMM emergency department between 2012 and 2020. The same biological and psychosocial data were collected from a control group with no psychiatric history.

Mar 17, 2025
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What if Project Management Could Address the Major Challenges of Research?

Project management is sometimes perceived as an administrative constraint, a rigid framework that stifles creativity. However, when adapted to the specificities of research, it becomes a strategic lever to structure, optimize, and accelerate work.

Mar 14, 2025
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Care trajectories of people with mood disorders in Quebec 

The prevalence of mood disorders has increased worldwide, but there is heterogeneity in the use of healthcare services. Scientists have identified four trajectories of care and classified people with mood disorders into service utilization groups to help decision-makers allocate resources.

Mar 10, 2025
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An interactive guide to help you succeed in Organizational Participatory Research

How to make a success of an organizational participatory research project? Here is an interactive guide outlining the challenges and solutions, with concrete examples.

Mar 7, 2025
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Self-management guide to acute respiratory infections available in five languages

This is a guide to help members of the public understand what to do depending on the nature of their respiratory infection symptoms. It is available in five languages.

Feb 25, 2025
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Self-assessment of readiness to implement an LHS approach

Here is a questionnaire designed to help healthcare organizations assess their current level of readiness to implement a learning healthcare system approach.

Feb 13, 2025
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The Unité de soutien SSA Québec.. in 3 minutes!

Discover how the Unit supports the deployment of a healthcare system that continuously learns and improves, and how it contributes to the improvement of the quintuple aim through the analogy of the beehive.

Jan 29, 2025
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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.

Jan 21, 2025
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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.

Jan 13, 2025
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