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COVID-19 showed the importance of fast and effective ways to study potential treatments. Traditional randomized controlled trials (RCT), while often methodologicall...
Assessing the Implementation of Point-of-Care Multiplex Viral Testing in Primary Care (AIM-Viral)
In Progress
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of rapid and accurate viral testing at the point of care to both guide patient care and support surveillance. AIM-...
The project is trying to understand how best to collect important personal information about our hard-to-reach populations, who are those living in low-income neighbou...
Globally, countries are struggling with healthcare workforce shortages, particularly in primary care. Strong primary care promotes health equity by addressing gaps in ...
In Canada, electronic medical records (EMRs) are a vital part of primary healthcare, providing a rich data source for research and quality improvement. These records c...
Our health is determined in large part by factors outside of the health care system. Known as the social determinants of health, these are the conditions in which we l...
Healthcare leaders in Ontario and across Canada have shown a growing interest in the collection and use of patient-reported measures within primary care and integrated...
Data collection on disability can potentially be utilized to identify patient needs and barriers to care, and inform how healthcare organizations design and deliver se...
Predicting hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions using primary care EMR data
In Progress
Hospitalizations related to ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) are common, costly, to some degree preventable with high-quality primary care, and are thus use...
Workers Organizing: multiple case study analysis
In Progress
Precarious employment has numerous negative consequences for workers’ health, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. To support the efforts to organize ...
This study will conduct a scoping review to summarize evidence on outpatient healthcare-based social care interventions that aim to support children ages 0-13 and/or t...
For Public Health Units (PHU) to respond to the health needs of the population informed by evidence, there is a need to better understand the barriers and enablers to ...