Post-Event Site : 2010 CAHSPR Conference

The 2010 CAHSPR Conference was a great success! We are happy to announce that attendance was record-breaking, and we are looking forward to seeing everyone for the 2011 CAHSPR Conference in Halifax, NS

Conference Documents and Presentations from our 2010 CAHSPR Conference are available below. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us!

CAHSPR 2010: Conference Program

CAHSPR 2010 PRESENTATIONS: Concurrent Sessions A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H

A1:
Integrating research knowledge into decision-making: Quality improvement EXTRA Interventions

A2:
Cervical Cancer Screening by Region of Origin among Ontario’s Urban Immigrants

Inequity in access to cancer care: A review of the Canadian literature

Sex Differences in the Use of Intensive Care Units

End of life care for elderly patients with advanced lung cancer in Ontario and the United States

A3:
Characteristics and migration patterns of physicians who permanently and temporarily leave the workforce

Generational differences in the factors important to physicians when choosing work locations (Presentation not available)

Forecasting Physician Supply and Need in Ontario

Living-Aging-Killing-Dying:Who Ought to Care and Why? (Presentation not available)

A4:
Results from a large systematic review of KE at the organizational and policy level

Understanding diffusion and measuring uptake: Evaluating informed decision-making in health services research

Best Brains Exchange: A Rapid, Relevant Research Response to Health Ministry Priorities

Models for knowledge-to-action: drawing lessons for decision makers

A5:
Marketing Before Patenting: Implications for Price Controls in Canada

Opportunity Cost: An estimate of public subsidies to the biopharmaceutical R&D in Canada

Use of SSRI antidepressants in pregnancy: is there evidence of benefit?

Public Drug Plan Professional Fees: A Cost Driver Analysis

A6:
Building a platform for public engagement evaluation - An interactive panel

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B1:
Engaging Patients in Designing Health Services (Presentation not available)

B2:
Identities, presumed definitions, and protean portrayals: The public-private healthcare debate in Canadian print media

Why do we always compare ourselves to the US? The Canadian Health Care system in an international context

The Evidentiary Burden for Overturning Government’s Choice of Regulatory Instrument: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

B3:
Transforming Data into Information: Is Canada up for the Challenge?

Innovation in Primary Health Care

A Review and Evaluation of Health Information Technology Solutions for Managing Chronic Diseases

The Primary Health Care Voluntary Reporting System: Improving Availability of Primary Health Care Information in Canada

B4:
Creating Episodes of Care for Total Knee Replacement: Describing Health Services Utilization Across the Health Care Continuum

Do health surveys really capture true prevalence of chronic conditions? (Presentation not available)

Social values in health technology policy analysis: A framework for using qualitative research evidence

Adjusting for Potential Confounders in Bayesian Hierarchical Models Synthesising Randomised and Non-Randomised Evidence

B5:
Estimating the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Multiple Population-Based Data Sources

A Model of Continuity of Care in the Context of Women’s Mental Health: An Exploratory Study of an Interprofessional Team Approach to Eating Disorders

The relationship between screening for intimate partner violence and subsequent service utilization over 18 months

Addressing the Needs of Ethno-cultural Populations within Mental Health and Addictions: Findings From Four Settings in British Columbia

B6:
Horses for courses and courses for horses: a panel on HSPR capacity building

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C1:
Student Theme Group Panel - Oral Presentation Skills: Learn tips to present your research clearly and efficiently (Presentation not available)

C2:
Who are the High Users of Health Care Services in the Chronic Disease Population?

Service provider perspectives on primary health care access for children in refugee and asylum seeking families

Building Knowledge about Health Services Utilization by Refugees in Calgary

How do physician visit rates and patterns differ between Metis and other Manitobans - a population-based study

C3:
A discrete choice experiment investigating preferences for funding drugs used to treat orphan diseases

An Economic Assessment of a Canadian-wide Program Targeted at At-risk Children aged 0 to 6 and their Families

Cost-effectiveness of MRI and mammography for breast cancer screening among BRCA 1/2 mutation carriers (Presentation not available)

The cost-effectiveness of primary care screening for haemoglobinopathies: results from the SHIFT study

C4:
Mobilizing Evidence at the Front Lines: Improving HIV/AIDS Policy and Care in Canada

Knowledge Management Practices in Acute Care Organizations across Canada

Leveraging online tools to disseminate public health data: Insights from the Drug Monitoring Project (www.AODmonitoring.ca)

Knowledge Exchange in Child and Youth Mental Health: Stakeholder Perspectives

C5:
Does a woman, her doctor or her hospital choose Vaginal Birth After Caesarean in Ontario?

Diabetes Care Gaps and Disparities in Canada

Examining the Effects of Enhanced Funding for Specialized Community Mental Health Programs on Continuity of Care

C6:
Optimiser l’étendue de pratique infirmière: une priorité pour l’administration des services infirmiers

Les modèles d’organisation et d’utilisation des ressources infirmières : typologie et effets sur le infirmier

La réalisation des pratiques infirmières : un enjeu de satisfaction professionnelle à considérer !

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D1:
Primary Healthcare Theme Group Sponsored Panel: The Researcher/Policy Maker Interface: Policy Informed Research, Research Informed Policy (Presentation not available)

D2:
Focusing on the physical health of our female hospital workforce: Prevalence and determinants of abdominal obesity

Demands and Rewards Associated with Working in Pediatric Oncology: Findings from a Qualitative Study

The Power and Politics of Collaboration in Nurse Practitioner Role Integration

Predictors of Job Dissatisfaction for Registered Nurses? Do These Differ For Younger Nurses?

D3:
Urban Métis and First Nations peoples perceptions of risk of developing diabetes: A community based participatory research

Diverse Inclusive Governance: A New Approach to Aboriginal Health Governance (Presentation not available)

The Development of A Strategic Policy Process for Aboriginal Health (Presentation not available)

De-Colonizing Aboriginal Health Services & Policy Research: Is Photovoice a Culturally-Relevant Research Methodology?

D4:
What New Mothers Want: Assessing the Accessibility and Effectiveness of Postpartum Services

Keeping the ‘home’ in homecare: people’s expectations and experiences of care delivered in their own living and social space

Why are patient-reported outcomes not routinely measured in Canada? Learning from literature and a clinical case study (Presentation not available)

Pathways to closing the gap in First Nations health

D5:
AGREE II: Advancing development, reporting, and evaluation of practice guidelines

Social Infrastructure and Knowledge Translation: Communities of Practice and Cancer Control

Factors Predicting the Embedment of Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines in Ontario Hospitals

Enhancing the Retrieval of Systematic Reviews that Can Inform Health System Management and Policymaking

D6:
IHSPR CAHSPR - The financing and sustainability of Canada’s health care system: What evidence is needed to inform a Health Accord renegotiation? 1 | 2 | 3

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E1:
Approaches to Accountability in Health Care

E2:
Patient outcomes following participation in cardiac rehabilitation programs of longer or shorter than 6 months: Does duration matter?

Regionalized care for adults with congenital heart disease in Canada; the impact of policy on quality- A pan-Canadian study

Variation in potential facility determinants of Emergency Department (ED) transfers - a survey of residential care facilities

Patient Safety in Saskatchewan: Adverse Event Rates and Their Cost to Healthcare System (Presentation not available)

E3:
How can we explain variations in provision of primary care between urban and rural area?

Forging a Health Policy Geography: Applying a Geographic Lens to Provincial Policy Frameworks to Reform Adolescent Mental Health Services

E4:

Building methods to measure and improve equitable access to quality colorectal cancer services in Nova Scotia

Another study showing that the EQ-5D and SF-6D are not interchangeable. But why would we expect them to be?

The Use Of Modeling To Reduce Wait Times In The Emergency Department: A Systematic Literature Review 

Projections of Cancer in Canada using the Cancer Risk Management Model (Presentation not available)

E5:
Economic Costs of Diabetes

The Cost-Effectiveness of bevacizumab as a Treatment for Advanced Colorectal Cancer: A postmarket study

Is Genetic Testing in Combination with Preventive Donepezil Treatment for Patients with AMCI Cost-effective in Canada? (Presentation not available)

Dynamics of informal and formal home care and placement in long term care

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F1:
Improving system performance: Multiple strategies for patient and provider interventions 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

F2:
Exploring factors that influence the use of an innovation - synoptic reporting - in cancer care

Predictors of Health Service Use among Palliative Cancer Patients (Presentation not available)

Colon Cancer Follow-up care in Manitoba: Who, What, and How Well?

Accountability for performance of comprehensive cancer centres: leveraging the impact of formal designations for research and training to motivate improvements in patient care quality (Presentation not available)

F3:
Smokers’ use of acute care hospitals-A prospective study

Rethinking Personal Security in Public Health: Lessons from Canada and Japan

An Exploration of HIV Testing Policy and Services Through a Social Justice Lens

Seasonal Influenza Immunization Rates in Pregnancy

F4:
Can a Glacier Contain Embedded Avalanches? Population Aging and Future Physician Services Use in British Columbia

Diagnosing senescence: Contributions to physician expenditures increases in British Columbia, 1996/97 to 2005/06 (Presentation not available)

Generational differences in physician mobility

Primary Care Physician Responses to Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Ontario

F5:
Caring for Caregivers: Balancing Formal and Informal Care for Frail Older Persons (Presentation not available)

Meeting Community Needs Through Integrated Care

The role of users’ committees in the management of Quebec’s health and social services centres

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G1:
Careers in Health Services Research - CAHSPR Student Working Group Panel Discussion (Presentation not available)

G2:
Area-level determinants of emergency department visits with and without hospitalization

Measuring the casemix of patients enrolled to primary care reform models in Ontario

Results from the Canadian Survey of Experiences in Primary Health Care

How can services provided by Public Health and Family Health Teams be integrated?

G3:
The Positive Impact of Nurse Practitioners on Interprofessional Care and Improved Health Resource Utilization

Retaining Nurses and other Hospital Workers: an intergenerational perspective of the work climate

Interprofessional Collaboration: A Global Health Strategy for Strengthening Health Systems and Primary Health Care

Interprovincial Collaboration for Evidence-Based Interprofessional and Health Human Resources Strategies

G4:
Evaluating first-contact accessibility: valid and reliable measures of geographic, organizational and economic accessibility

Shifts in the Conceptualization and Practice of Integrating Healthcare Services

The view from below (Presentation not available)

Measuring Health System Integration: A Framework to Assess Inter-Provider Electronic Information Exchange (Presentation not available)

G5:
Identifying ‘Public Values’ in the Toronto Health Policy Citizens’ Council: A Public-Engagement Initiative

Ethics & the public: exploring the use of public engagement as a method to incorporate ethics in health technology assessment (Presentation not available)

Intensive caregiving and self-identification as a primary caregiver: Are they the same? (Presentation not available)

Public engagement: Assessing a staged approach for a contentious health policy issue (Presentation not available)

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H1:
CIHR-IHSPR Rising Stars: The Art and Science of Engaging with Decision Makers 1 | 2

H2:
Cancer Care Decision-Makers’ Perspectives on QALYs for Decision-making and Resource Allocation

Economic evaluation to inform resource allocation decisions in health care: full of promises and pitfalls

Resource allocation at St. Joseph’s Health Centre: evidence informed solutions in uncertain economic times

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Mass Immunization Program in Ontario - Good Value for Money?

H3:
Inequalities in health and health care use among children: a panel analysis of survey data

Utilization of Health Care Services among Long-Term Cancer Survivors Diagnosed in Young Adulthood

School-Based Health Services and Young Males: Implications for Service Delivery

H4:
Use of and spending on pharmaceuticals in the last year of life: variations within and across populations

The relationship between prescription drug insurance and unmet need for health care

Patterns in the use of benzodiazepines in British Columbia: Examining the impact of research cautions against long-term use

Prescribing During Pregnancy: Evidence from British Columbia

H5:
Systems Thinking and Knowledge to Action (KTA): An Emerging Paradigm 1 | 2 | 3

H6:
Housing the Homeless with Mental Illnesses: Intervention Research when Your “Lab” is a Country - The At Home/Chez Soi research and demonstration project on homelessness and mental illness 1 | 2