The Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship program in Canada offers a transformative approach to health services and policy research (HSPR) training, preparing PhD graduates for diverse career pathways and leadership roles within learning health systems. This commentary builds on Kasaai and colleagues' evaluation of the HSI Fellowship to discuss the diverse career paths of alumni and highlight the multifaceted benefits of the program. Further, we emphasize the need for future research and knowledge mobilization to better understand and evaluate embedded research roles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA novel, complex chronic condition emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic: long COVID. The persistent long COVID symptoms can be multisystem and varied. Effective long COVID management requires multidisciplinary, collaborative models of care, which continue to be developed and refined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScope: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, community rehabilitation stakeholders from a provincial health system designed a novel telerehabilitation service. The service provided wayfinding and self-management advice to individuals with musculoskeletal concerns, neurological conditions, or post-COVID-19 recovery needs. This study evaluated the efficiency of the service in improving access to care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Post-stroke visual impairment (VI) is a common but under-recognized care challenge. Common manifestations of post-stroke VI include: diplopia, homonymous hemianopia, oscillopsia secondary to nystagmus, and visual inattention or neglect. In acute care settings, post-stroke VI recognition and treatment are often sub-optimal as emphasis is placed on survival.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFlow cytometry is a fluorescence-based technology that allows for the identification and characterization of immune cell subsets within a heterogenous population. Briefly, isolated immune cells are stained in suspension with fluorescently tagged antibodies to identify cells of interest prior to being run through a flow cytometer. Here we describe how to isolate murine immune cells from various body regions, including the inguinal lymph nodes (ILNs), spleen, thymus, and peripheral blood, and tag them with primary fluorescent antibodies for flow cytometric analysis of CD4+ and CD8+ T cell populations.
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