Publications by authors named "Kyle Silveira"

Article Synopsis
  • The study investigates why fascia iliaca compartment nerve blocks (FICBs) are not consistently used in hip fracture treatment, focusing on barriers and facilitators to timely administration.
  • Researchers conducted interviews with 35 stakeholders and identified 18 barriers and 11 facilitators related to FICB use, categorizing them using implementation frameworks.
  • After applying evidence-based strategies, the study found a significant increase in FICB administration rates (from 48% to 65%) and a reduction in the time taken to administer (from 1.63 days to 0.81 days).
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Background: The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (task force) develops evidence-based preventive health care guidelines and knowledge translation (KT) tools to facilitate guideline dissemination and implementation. We aimed to determine practitioners' awareness of task force guidelines and KT tools and explore barriers and facilitators to their use.

Methods: The task force's KT team completed annual evaluations using surveys and interviews with primary care providers in Canada from 2014 to 2020, to assess practitioners' awareness and determinants of use of task force guidelines and tools.

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Objective: To evaluate reliability and validity of the six and 12 item Patient Engagement Evaluation Tool (PEET) to inform guideline developers about the quality of patient and public involvement activities.

Study Design And Setting: PEET-12 and three embedded validation questions were completed by patients and members of the public who participated in developing 10 guidelines between 2018 and 2020. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to assess the validity of a single-dimension factor structure.

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