Bringing disability experiences front stage: Research-based theatre as a teaching approach to promote inclusive health education.

Background: Despite efforts to promote inclusion of people living with disabilities in health and human service education and professions, students and clinicians living with disabilities continue to face powerful barriers, arising most notably from the stigma and negative attitudes of their peers. Increased awareness of these lived experiences are needed to affect attitudinal changes and reduce barriers to participation in those professions. To achieve this, information (stories) must be presented to learners in a way that promotes emotional engagement and highlights these issues from multiple perspectives.

Research-based Theatre about veterans transitioning home: A mixed-methods evaluation of audience impacts.

Rationale: Contact!Unload, a research-based theatre production, portrays veterans experiencing mental health challenges and overcoming them through therapeutic enactment. It was performed eight times by veteran performers in 2017 for audiences in two Canadian cities comprised of civilians and military-connected personnel and their families (n = 525).

Methods: Drawing upon qualitative and quantitative data sources, this paper evaluates the immediate and longer-term impacts of Contact!Unload as a knowledge translation intervention for audience members.

The Impact of Guideline Integration into Electronic Medical Records on Outcomes for Patients with Diabetes: A Systematic Review.

Optimal strategies for integration of clinical practice guidelines into electronic medical records and its impact on processes of care and clinical outcomes in diabetic patients are not well understood. A systematic review of CINAHL, MEDLINE, PubMed, and Cochrane Library databases in August 2016, November 2017, and June 2020 was conducted. Studies investigating integration of diabetes guidelines into ambulatory care electronic medical records reporting quantitative results were included.

Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Blood Glucose Test Strip Prescription Rates in Manitoba and Saskatchewan (Canada): An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis.

Objectives: Our aim in this study was to assess the impact of the Diabetes Canada Dissemination & Implementation strategy on population-level prescription rates of blood glucose test strips.

Methods: We extracted all diabetes-related drugs and test strip claims in Manitoba and Saskatchewan between January 1, 2000 and September 30, 2015 from the Canadian Institute for Health Information's National Prescription Drug Utilization Information System. The primary outcome was the proportion of the cohort in each quarter who had been dispensed strips in accordance with the Diabetes Canada 2013 guidelines.

Impact of a Comprehensive Guideline Dissemination Strategy on Diabetes Diagnostic Test Rates: an Interrupted Time Series.

Background: Diabetes Canada launched a comprehensive Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) strategy to optimize uptake of their 2013 Clinical Practice Guidelines; the strategy involved continuing professional development courses, webinars, an interactive website, applications for mobile devices, point-of-care decision support tools, and media awareness campaigns. It included a focus on promoting HbA1c as the recommended diagnostic test for diabetes.

Objective: To determine the impact of Diabetes Canada's 2013 D&I strategy on physician test-ordering behavior, specifically HbA1c testing, for the diagnosis of diabetes, using provincial healthcare administrative data.

Impact of the Diabetes Canada Guideline Dissemination Strategy on the Prescription of Vascular Protective Medications: A Retrospective Cohort Study, 2010-2015.

Objective: The 2013 Diabetes Canada guidelines launched targeted dissemination tools and a simple assessment for vascular protection. We aimed to ) examine changes associated with the launch of the 2013 guidelines and additional dissemination efforts in the rates of vascular protective medications prescribed in primary care for older patients with diabetes and ) examine differences in the rates of prescriptions of vascular protective medications by patient and provider characteristics.

Research Design And Methods: The study population included patients (≥40 years of age) from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) with type 2 diabetes and at least one clinic visit from April 2010 to December 2015.

A Canadian Cross-Sectional Survey on Psychosocial Supports for Adults Living With Type 1 or 2 Diabetes: Health-Care Providers' Awareness, Capacity and Motivation.

Objectives: Addressing psychosocial issues is critical for diabetes self-management. This work explores health-care professionals' (HCPs') 1) perceived relevance of various psychosocial issues in diabetes management and 2) confidence in working on these issues within their services.

Methods: An online cross-sectional survey was developed based on the Capacity-Opportunity-Motivation Behaviour Model.