Publications

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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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?

Jan 9, 2025
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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!

Nov 22, 2024
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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.

Sep 24, 2024
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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.

Sep 24, 2024
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Enhancing interprofessional collaboration for unattached patients in primary care 

This study shows a significant increase in the delivery of comprehensive care for patients without a regular family doctor, from 13% to 43%, thanks to interprofessional collaboration. Nevertheless, it highlights the need for structural improvements and training to maximize the effectiveness of this collaboration.

Sep 23, 2024
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5 Ways Patient Partners Can Be Involved

Did you know that patient partners can get involved in a number of areas? Find out which ones, and explore some inspiring examples from right here in Québec!

Aug 26, 2024
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Beyond experiential knowledge: a classification of patient knowledge

A narrative review challenged the dominant model of knowledge in medicine and healthcare, and classified the forms of knowledge that patients acquire, develop and mobilize throughout their care journey.

Aug 21, 2024
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Effects of ethical climate in association with tenure on work addiction, quality of care and staff retention: a cross-sectional study

"The article studies an organizational lever, namely the ethical climate, as a vector of several positive spin-offs, for both caregivers and patients. Considering that the data was collected across Canada during the omicron wave, the article presents an interesting portrait of healthcare networks and the people who make them up in times of crisis." Francis Maisonneuve

May 16, 2024
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Canadian English translation and linguistic validation of the 13-MD to measure global health-related quality of life

How to measure health-related quality of life by considering physical, mental and social health in a balanced way? With the 13-MD tool, available in English and French.

May 13, 2024
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Informing the development of the SUCCEED reporting guideline for studies on the scaling of health interventions: A systematic review

This article identifies relevant guidelines and lists potential items for the development of the SUCCEED (Standards for reporting stUdies of sCaling evidenCEd-informED interventions) guideline.

Mar 12, 2024
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