Embedding a culture of research in Canadian community hospitals: a qualitative study.

Background: In Canada, academic hospitals are the principal drivers of research and medical education, while community hospitals provide patient care to a majority of the population. Benefits of increasing community hospital research include improved patient outcomes and access to research, enhanced staff satisfaction and retention and increased research efficiency and generalizability. While the resources required to build Canadian community hospital research capacity have been identified, strategies for strengthening organizational research culture in these settings are not well defined.

Factors influencing community intensive care unit research participation: a qualitative descriptive study.

Purpose: Community hospitals account for 90% of hospitals in Canada, but clinical research is mainly conducted in academic hospitals. Increasing community hospital research participation can improve generalizability of study results, while also accelerating study recruitment and increasing staff engagement. We aimed to identify and describe the factors that influence community intensive care unit (ICU) research participation and the development, implementation, and sustainability of a community ICU research program.

Canadian intensive care unit nurses' responses to moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their recommendations for mitigative interventions.

Aims: To describe intensive care unit nurses' experiences of moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their recommendations for mitigative interventions.

Design: Interpretive description.

Methods: Data were collected with a purposeful sample of 40 Canadian intensive care unit nurses between May and September 2021.

Moral Distress and Other Wellness Measures in Canadian Critical Care Physicians.

Understanding the magnitude of moral distress and its associations may point to solutions. To understand the magnitude of moral distress and other measures of wellness in Canadian critical care physicians, to determine any associations among these measures, and to identify potentially modifiable factors. This was an online survey of Canadian critical care physicians whose e-mail addresses were registered with either the Canadian Critical Care Society or the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.