Decision-making and experiences of preimplantation genetic diagnosis in inherited heart diseases: a qualitative study.

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) ensures a disease-causing variant is not passed to the next generation, including for inherited heart diseases. PGD is known to cause significant emotional burden, but little is known about how parents experience PGD to select against inherited heart disease. We aim to understand how people with inherited heart disease, and their partners, experience and make decisions about PGD.

Needs analysis of parents following sudden cardiac death in the young.

Objective: The sudden cardiac death (SCD) of a young person is a devastating event for any parent. Inherited heart disease is often either identified or assumed to be the cause. Few studies have explored the psychosocial impact to the surviving at-risk family members.

Uncovering the Mysteries of Electronic Medication Reconciliation.

Island Health Authority ordering providers and staff continue to experience challenges related to electronic medication reconciliation. A Think Tank was created to seek a deeper understanding of the reasons why end users were experiencing challenges with documenting home medications, managing conversion failures, and writing prescriptions. Strategies to improve configuration, education, and process are underway.

Psychological adaptation to molecular autopsy findings following sudden cardiac death in the young.

Purpose: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the young is a devastating event occurring in otherwise healthy individuals. Postmortem genetic testing (molecular autopsy) may help identify a cause, though there is potential for uncertainty. We report psychological adaptation to molecular autopsy findings amongst family members after a young SCD.

Developing Effective Case Scenarios for Interprofessional Electronic Health Record Research.

In the last decade, there have been numerous calls for research in interprofessional communication and documentation. Some of the limitations of research in this area have been proprietary user interfaces that may not be generalizable and impact varying adoption rates of electronic documentation among different health disciplines. In order to address these concerns, researchers need to create standardized case scenarios as research instruments.