Primary care for individuals with serious mental illness (PriSMI): protocol for a convergent mixed methods study.

Introduction: People with serious mental illness (SMI) have poor health outcomes, in part because of inequitable access to quality health services. Primary care is well suited to coordinate and manage care for this population; however, providers may feel ill-equipped to do so and patients may not have the support and resources required to coordinate their care. We lack a strong understanding of prevention and management of chronic disease in primary care among people with SMI as well as the context-specific barriers that exist at the patient, provider and system levels.

Enhancing COVID Rehabilitation with Technology (ECORT): protocol for an open-label, single-site randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of electronic case management for individuals with persistent COVID-19 symptoms.

Background: As of May 2022, Ontario has seen more than 1.3 million cases of COVID-19. While the majority of individuals will recover from infection within 4 weeks, a significant subset experience persistent and often debilitating symptoms, known as "post-COVID syndrome" or "Long COVID.

Homelessness and health-related outcomes: an umbrella review of observational studies and randomized controlled trials.

Background: Homelessness has been associated with multiple detrimental health outcomes across observational studies. However, relatively few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted on people who experience homelessness (PEH). Thus, this umbrella review ranked the credibility of evidence derived from systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs) of observational studies investigating the associations between homelessness and any health outcome as well as RCTs targeting health needs in this population.

Engaging in resuscitation status conversations in psychiatry: A qualitative study of nurses' perspectives.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Discussion and documentation of a patient's resuscitation status are essential aspects of any hospital admission, and yet, they seldomly occur in psychiatry. Nurses play an important role in resuscitation status determination by being an information broker, supporter and advocate. Persons with mental illness may be competent to engage in the determination of their resuscitation status and deserve the same respect and autonomy as other patients during this process.

Interventions to improve emergency department use for mental health reasons: protocol for a mixed-methods systematic review.

Background: Healthcare resources are limited and unnecessary, and inappropriate emergency department use is now a highly visible healthcare priority. Individuals visiting the emergency department for mental health-related reasons are often amongst the most frequent presenters. In response, researchers and clinicians have created interventions to streamline emergency department use and several primary studies describe the effects of these interventions.

Hepatitis C patient communication source and modality preferences in the direct-acting antiviral era.

Background: Although hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment has improved dramatically, decision making related to treatment continues to be complex and challenging. Little data exists regarding patient information needs and preferences in the direct-acting antiviral (DAA) era.

Methods: We evaluated patient-perceived information needs and preferences when making HCV treatment decisions.