TorSaDE is an initiative of the Unit. It is a cohort on the care trajectories of patients with sensitive conditions requiring ambulatory care. The TorSaDE cohort consists of respondent data from various cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), combined with their medical and administrative data for a 20-year period (from 1996 to 2016).
In partnership with the Institut de la statistique du Québec, the project is designed to make data on care trajectories for a cohort representative of the Quebec population available to Unit-affiliated researchers. This project can generate useful information for clinicians, decision-makers and organizations to improve care trajectories for patients with various health problems, thereby helping to improve their quality of life.
A PhD candidate will use the TorSaDe cohort
Clara Bolster-Foucault, a PhD candidate in Epidemiology at McGill University in Montreal, will study inequalities in disruptions to aging in place, such as disparities in admissions to long-term care facilities (CHSLDs), using TorSaDe, which provides researchers with data from a care trajectory cohort representative of the Quebec population.
Cohort Profile in the International Journal of Epidemiology: The Care Trajectories—Enriched Data (TorSaDE) cohort
Colleagues from the Unité de soutien SSA Québec and their colleagues published this article in the renowned International Journal of Epidemiology to introduce the TorSaDE data cohort.
Dr. Anaïs Lacasse creates a gender index thanks to TorSaDe
On September 14, 2020, Dr. Anaïs Lacasse, associate professor in the health sciences department at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), presented her gender index in a webinar organized by the Quebec Population Health Research Network (QPHRN).