Advancing health equity for Indigenous peoples in Canada: development of a patient complexity assessment framework.

Background: Indigenous patients often present with complex health needs in clinical settings due to factors rooted in a legacy of colonization. Healthcare systems and providers are not equipped to identify the underlying causes nor enact solutions for this complexity. This study aimed to develop an Indigenous-centered patient complexity assessment framework for urban Indigenous patients in Canada.

Access, Relationships, Quality and Safety (ARQS): a qualitative study to cocreate an Indigenous patient experience tool for virtual primary care.

Background: Perspectives from Indigenous peoples and their primary care providers about the quality and impacts of virtual primary care for Indigenous patients are currently limited. This study engaged Indigenous patients and their primary care providers, resulting in four domains being established for an Indigenous patient experience tool for use in virtual primary care. In this paper, we explore the development and finalisation of the Access, Relationships, Quality and Safety (ARQS) tool.

Critically examining health complexity experienced by urban Indigenous peoples in Canada by exploring the factors that allow health complexity to persist: a qualitative study of Indigenous patients in Calgary, Alberta.

Objectives: This study aims to identify and critically examine the components of health complexity, and explore the factors that allow it to exist, among urban Indigenous peoples in Canada.

Design: Qualitative exploration with relational conversations.

Setting: Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Indigenous Mentorship for the Health Sciences: An Appraisal of a Contemporary Model by Indigenous Stakeholders.

In 2021, Murry et al. put forward a model of Indigenous mentorship within the health sciences based on the behaviors of Indigenous mentors toward their Indigenous mentees. This study explored mentees' endorsements and/or criticisms of the IM model and how and behaviors described in the model benefited them.

Readiness to Practice in Health Care: An Empirical Definition Based on a Content Analysis of the Literature.

Background: Health care services require practitioners to be ready to practice (R2P), but evidence shows new graduates vary in R2P. Unfortunately, there is a lack of clarity about what R2P entails.

Method: A content analysis of the empirical literature (Gaur & Kumar, 2018) was used to quantify the elements and higher-order categories of R2P.

Access, relationships, quality and safety (ARQS): a qualitative study to develop an Indigenous-centred understanding of virtual care quality.

Background: Among Indigenous peoples in Canada, access to high-quality healthcare remains an important determinant of health. The shift to virtual and remote-based approaches, expedited during the COVID-19 pandemic, influenced the ways in which individuals accessed care and the quality of care received. This study sought to determine which elements are required for effective and sustainable virtual care approaches for delivery of primary care to Indigenous patients and develop quality indicators grounded in Indigenous community and experience.

Propelled by the Pandemic: Responses and Shifts in Primary Healthcare Models for Indigenous Peoples.

The COVID-19 pandemic posed a significant risk to the health and well-being of First Nations and Métis communities in Alberta. Communities' self-determined and integrated responses with embedded cultural supports - in collaboration with governments, organizations and providers - were key to minimizing morbidity and mortality. Maintaining and building these relationships in the continued pandemic response, broadening approaches to healthcare delivery and continuing to include culture will support attainment of the Indigenous primary healthcare model while addressing logistical challenges in transforming and sustaining healthcare systems in the background of ongoing inequities in the social determinants of health.

Indigenous Mentorship in the Health Sciences: Actions and Approaches of Mentors.

: Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars have called for mentorship as a viable approach to supporting the retention and professional development of Indigenous students in the health sciences. In the context of Canadian reconciliation efforts with Indigenous Peoples, we developed an Indigenous mentorship model that details behavioral themes that are distinct or unique from non-Indigenous mentorship.: We used Flanagan's Critical Incidents Technique to derive mentorship behaviors from the literature, and focus groups with Indigenous faculty in the health sciences associated with the AIM-HI network funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

The Indigenous primary health care and policy research network: Guiding innovation within primary health care with Indigenous peoples in Alberta.

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its Final Report with 94 Calls to Action, several of which called upon the health care sector to reform based on the principles of reconciliation. In the province of Alberta, Canada, numerous initiatives have arisen to address the health legacy Calls to Action, yet there is no formal mechanism to connect them all. As such, these initiatives have resulted in limited improvements overall.