6 results match your criteria: "Director of Research at the College of Family Physicians of Canada.[Affiliation]"

Objective: To identify FPs with additional training and focused practice activities relevant to the needs of older patients within health administrative data and to describe their medical practices and service provision in community-based primary care settings.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Ontario.

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Objective: To describe the citation impact and characteristics of Canadian primary care researchers and research publications.

Design: Citation analysis.

Setting: Canada.

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Objective: To evaluate an intervention aimed at building capacity to deliver palliative care in primary care settings.

Design: The INTEGRATE Project was a 3-year pilot project involving interprofessional palliative care education and an integrated care model to promote early identification and support of patients with palliative care needs. A concurrent mixed-methods evaluation was conducted using descriptive data, provider surveys before and after implementation, and interviews with providers and managers.

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Do family health clinics provide primary-level palliative care in Ontario and the eastern regions of Quebec?

Can Fam Physician

February 2019

Director of Research at the College of Family Physicians of Canada in Mississauga, Ont, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont, and Chief Scientific Officer at Pallium Canada in Ottawa.

Objective: To explore the extent to which family health clinics in Ontario and the eastern regions of the province of Quebec provide palliative care.

Design: A cross-sectional survey.

Setting: Ontario and the eastern regions of Quebec.

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Ottawa has a 31-bed palliative care unit (PCU) and two residential adult hospices (total 19 beds). In 2013, we initiated a project to improve the referral and triage processes to these beds. Previously, there were two separate paper-based systems with duplication, inefficiencies, delays and inappropriate patient placements.

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