Annual CAHSPR Conference 2009
May 11-14, 2009 – Calgary, Alberta
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM :
- 2009 Conference Program (English)
- Programme de la conférence de 2009 (Français)
Please note that all presentations are being loaded in the language they were written and presented in by the authors. We will not be providing translated versions of the presentations.
Keynote and Plenary Presentations :
- EMMETT HALL LECTURE – Dr. Raisa Deber, Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
- KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: “Waiting Time Targets and Care Guarantees” – Dr. Marianne Hanning, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Social Medicine, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Poster Presentations – Abstracts :
- Poster Presentations – Abstracts (Alphabetically by last name of presenter)
- A1 : PANEL - DRUG SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS: REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR HEALTH CARE POLICY, PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
- A2 : FEATURED - HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES
- A2a : Did Ontario’s Full Employment of Nurses Initiative have a differential effectiveness in retaining full-time, part-time, and casual nurses?
- A2c : Who Will Care for the Children? Projecting Pediatric Primary Care Physician Services
- A3 : ORALS - ETHNICITY, IMMIGRATION AND HEALTH
- A3a : Revisiting the Healthy Immigrant Effect
- A3b : Primary Health Care: Experiences of Preschoolers in Refugee and Asylum Seeking Families
- A3c : Integrating Cultural Diversity in Health Care Systems
- A3d : Factors Effecting HIV/AIDS Treatment and Prevention amongst Recent Immigrants Living in Rural Centers
- A4 : ORALS - CANCER SCREENING
- A4a : Hereditary Colorectal Cancer Screening: Specialists, Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Patterns
- A4b : Compliance with Cancer Screening Guidelines Across Canadian Provinces
- A4c : A systematic review of interventions to increase cancer screening uptake among Asian women
- A4d : Organizational factors delaying cancer diagnosis: General practitioners’ perspectives
- A5 : ORALS - PUBLIC OPINION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
- A5a : The Determinants of Stakeholder Preferences for Health Resource Allocation
- A5b : What underlies Canadians confidence in their health care system?
- A5c : Assessing the Impacts of Public Engagement: Putting the Cart before the Horse?
- A5d : Engaging with Impact : Developing Indicators of Citizen Engagement for Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs)
- A6 : ORALS - PRIMARY CARE PERSPECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
- A6a : Are relational and technical quality of care related to one another?
- A6b : Individual and organizational determinants of the PC experience reported by patients with different types of chronic conditions
- A6c : Performance Measures amongst Primary Care Groups in Ontario
- A6d : Provider Perspectives on Self-Management: An Environmental Scan
- A7 : PANEL - ASSESSING EQUITY OF HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION: USE OF CONCENTRATION-INDEX BASED METHODS
- Kim McGrail, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, UBC
- Michel Grignon, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
- B1 : PANEL - CAREERS IN HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
- Claudia Sanmartin, Health Information and Research Group, Statistics Canada
- Chad Leaver, Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences
- B2 : FEATURED - MENTAL HEALTH
- B2a : Access to cardio-metabolic care in people with schizophrenia: A population-based cohort study
- B2b : Mental Health System Transformation Stage 1: Building Consensus Around High-Level Goals for a Mental Health Strategy for Canada
- B2c : Monitoring Children’s Mental Health and Evaluating Policy Outcomes with Secondary Data in British Columbia
- B3 : ORALS - RESEARCH DATA AND DATA QUALITY
- B3a : Hunting for health statistics? We can help!
- B3b : The development, evolution and modifications of ICD-10: Challenges to the international comparability of morbidity data
- B3c : Measuring quality: Electronic medical record (EMR) versus billing claims data
- B3d : The Development and Application of a Data Quality Measure in an Electronic Medical Record-Derived Primary Health Care Database
- B4 : ORALS - HEALTH CARE LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
- B4b : Moving From Pilot Projects to Sustained Organizational Change in a Rural and Northern Health Region
- B4c : New accident models to learn from critical incidents: The importance of “first story” vs. “second story”
- B4d : Innovation in Healthcare - A Concept Analysis
- B5 : ORALS - HEALTH ECONOMICS
- B5a : Is there a quality-efficiency trade off in Ontario acute care hospitals?
- B5b : Economic Evaluations of Targeted Therapy - Do they meet the needs of decision-makers?
- B5c : Sensitivity analysis in economic evaluation: What policy impact? What do policy makers say?
- B5d : The Quality of Pediatric Cost-Utility Analysis Studies: 1997-2006
- B6 : ORALS - HHR SERVICE USE, PROVISION AND PRODUCTIVITY
- B7 : PANEL - COLLABORATING, LEARNING AND TRANSFORMING: THE RENEWAL OF PRIMARY CARE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
- C2 : FEATURED - PHARMACEUTICAL ADVERTISING, SPENDING AND ADVERSE EVENTS
- C2a : Twelve years’ experience with direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs in Canada: A cautionary tale
- C2b : Initial Results on the impact of access to an electronic medication history in reducing preventable adverse drug events
- C2c : Variation In Prescription Drug Use And Costs Across Age Groups And Provinces In Canada: Evidence From The Canadian Rx Atlas
- C3 : ORALS - ACCESS TO CARE
- C3a : The Relationship between Self-reported Unmet Need for Health Care and Health Care Utilization
- C3b : What do lay health workers do to facilitate access to health services? The example of Mujer Sana, Comunidad Sana
- C3c : Increasing access to chronic disease self-management programs (CDSMP) in rural and remote communities in ON using telehealth
- C3d : Access to primary health care team: Who gets it and does it matter?
- C4 : ORALS - FINDING, SYNTHESIZING AND USING RESEARCH
- C4a : Mythbusters Teaching Resource: A guide for writing policy-relevant research summaries
- C4c : Putting Research to Work: Guidelines to Getting Implementable Recommendations from Syntheses
- C4d : A Quality Appraisal Tool for Syntheses of Qualitative Evidence
- C5: ORALS - PRIMARY CARE REFORMS AND TEAMS
- C5a : Knowledge Flow and Exchange in Interdisciplinary Primary Health Care Teams: An Exploratory Study
- C5b : A population-based evaluation of Ontario’s large primary care reform models
- C5c : Innovation in Delivery of Primary Health Care Services for People with Chronic Disease: Providers’ Perspectives of Group Medical Visits
- C5d : Key organizational and delivery features of Community Health Centres in British Columbia
- C6 : ORALS - HEALTH POLICY AND GOVERNANCE
- C6a : The process of implementing a population-based approach to managing local healthcare: The Québec example
- C6b : The Balance of Care in Ontario: A Tale of Three Cities
- C6c : Exploring competing notions of performance in a decentralised local health system
- C6d : Decentralization of governance: A comparative study of England, The Netherlands and Ontario, Canada
- C7 : PANEL - THE MATRYOSHKA PROJECT: THE STORY OF NEW INVESTMENTS IN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS CHANGE IN ONTARIO
- Chiachen Cheng, St. Joseph’s Care Group/Canadian Mental Health Association-Thunder Bay Branch
- Carolyn Dewa, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health / University of Toronto
- D1 : PANEL - FROM TALKING TO DOING: PROMOTING AND DESIGNING EMBEDDED RESEARCH AND EVALUATION CAPACITY IN HEALTH SYSTEMS
- Judy Seidel, Alberta Health Services - Calgary and Area
- Cathie Scott , Alberta Health Services - Calgary and Area
- Sarah Bowen, University of Alberta
- D2 : FEATURED - HEALTH CARE QUALITY AND SAFETY
- D2a : Nurses’ implicit rationing of inpatient care: An empirical analysis
- D2b : Barriers to Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety
- D2c : The Critical Care Vital Signs Monitor: A scorecard for safe and effective patient care in intensive care
- D3 : ORALS - REGIONAL VARIATIONS
- D3a : Examining regional variation in primary cesarean section rates in British Columbia
- D3b : Socioeconomic and Geographic Differences in Health Services Utilization for Parkinson’s Disease
- D3c : Geographic Equity in Hospital Utilization: Canadian Evidence Using a Concentration-Index Approach
- D3d : Regional variation in prescription drug use and cost in British Columbia, Canada
- D4 : ORALS - HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE
- D4a : Environmental Scan on Safety in Homecare: Perspectives from Clients, Family Members, Caregivers, and Paid Providers
- D4b : Case Management for the Elderly at Home: Do Policy-Makers Support it and How?
- D4c : Sources of Responsibility for Home Care: An Ethico-legal Critique
- D4d : Community Care Options and Characteristics of Individuals Waiting for Long-term Care Placement: Urban-Rural Differences
- D5 : ORALS - MENTAL HEALTH
- D5a : Leadership, training, communication and structural support: Keys to service integration for dual diagnosis patients
- D5b : Guaranteeing Mental Health Treatment
- D5c : Shaping Collaborative processes: Making sense of a mental health policy
- D6 : ORALS - ASSESSING NEEDS, SETTING PRIORITIES, TO STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION
- D6a : Need-based Resource Allocation: Incorporating Proximity to Death
- D6b : Greening and Sustainability in Health Care: Implementing a Strategic Response
- D6c : Developing Criteria for evaluating the introduction of health technology at the local level
- D6d : Priority setting in community care: Introducing an evidence-informed approach in the Interior Health Authority (IH) of B.C.
- D7 : PANEL - PAYING FOR WHAT WORKS - COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS AS A ‘REAL-WORLD’ STUDY DESIGN TO EVALUATE EVIDENCE-BASED CLINICAL PATHWAYS
- E1 : PANEL - MEASURING THE PERFORMANCE OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN CANADA - POPULATING THE CIHI PRIMARY CARE INDICATORS
- Michael Green, Queen’s University
- William Hogg, University of Ott awa
- Greg Webster, CIHI
- Sabrina Wong, UBC
- Liisa Jaakkimainen, University of Toronto
- E2 : FEATURED - EQUITY AND INEQUITIES
- E2a : Inequity in physician care and the funding of prescription drugs
- E2b : Predictors of standard of care for stage III colon cancer patients living in Alberta
- E2c : What are wait times to see a specialist? An analysis of 16115 referrals in South-western Ontario to ascertain equity
- E3 : ORALS - PRIORITY SETTING METHODS
- E3a : Decision-Makers’ Perspectives on Priority-Setting Methods
- E3b : Introducing a priority setting handbook: A mechanism for knowledge translation
- E3c : Identifying research priorities for health care priority setting: A collaborative effort between managers and researchers
- E3d : Priority Setting Methods in Cancer: Developing a Rational Model for Evidence-Informed Resource Allocation (Year 2)
- E4 : ORALS - EMERGENCY HEALTH CARE
- E4a : Ambulance Use in Ontario
- E4b : Emergencies of Care: Firefighter Involvement in Emergency Health Care
- E4c : Qualitative results from an Ontario hospital patient flow improvement program pilot to improve ED waiting times
- E4d : Emergency department utilization and ambulatory care sensitive chronic conditions
- E5 : ORALS - KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER THEORY AND PRACTICE
- E5a : Translating scientific research into clinical practice: Some institutional constraints
- E5b : Realism Approach to Theory and Implementation of Knowledge Transfer - A case study of a patient safety intervention
- E5c : Building Bridges among Researchers, Decision-makers and Practitioners to Create Evidence-Based Health Services Delivery and Care
- E5d : The Knowledge-to-Action Process - Tapping into the health technology assessment (HTA) framework to formulate a functional knowledge exchange model
- E6 : ORALS - LIFE-COURSE AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
- E6a : The impact of social capital on health service use among Canadian Immigrants
- E6b : End of life care planning: A retrospective health record review
- E6c : Maternal and Newborn Population Outcomes in Rural British Columbia
- E6d : Population Aging and Health Status in Canada: Is 70 the new 60?
- E7 : PANEL - CORE COMPETENCIES IN HEALTH SERVICES AND POLICY RESEARCH: AN INTERACTIVE PANEL
- Steven Morgan, UBC - Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
- Susan Law, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
- Catherine Mah, University of Toronto
- F1 : PANEL - CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTING QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AS A STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
- Bonnie Brossart, Health Quality Council Saskatchewan
- Paula Blackstien-Hirsch, Centre for Healthcare Quality Improvement
- F2 : FEATURED - RESEARCH METHODS
- F2a : Characterizing Emergency Department Users: A Latent Class Analysis Approach
- F2c : Using Administrative Data to Describe the Organization and Quality of Colon Cancer Follow-up Care in Manitoba
- F3 : ORALS - ECONOMIC BURDEN, COSTING AND WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY
- F3a : The Cost of Waiting: The Economic Benefit of Reduction in Waiting for Early Breast Cancer Radiotherapy
- F3b : The Economic Burden of Immigrants with HIV/AIDS: When to say no?
- F3c : Costs of Service Provision over the Palliative Care Trajectory
- F3d : The Impact of Canadian and U.S. Cancer Screening Guidelines on Cancer Detection
- F4 : ORALS - CHRONIC DISEASE AND TREATMENT
- F4a : Validation of a Coding Algorithm to Define Hypertension using Administrative Data: Variation due to Geographic Region and Time
- F4b : Persistence and adherence with cardiovascular and lipid-lowering drugs following acute myocardial infarction
- F4c : Increasing asthma prevalence in children: True increase or diagnostic exchange?
- F4d : Measuring quality of diabetes care through linkage of administrative health data and laboratory data
- F5 : ORALS - EQUITY AND INEQUITIES IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
- F5a : Evidence of disparities in health expenditures for treatment of illness and for preventive purposes in Kerala, India
- F5b : Uptake of preventive services by Metis people living in Manitoba - What are the predictors in a population-based study?
- F5c : Environmental Health Inequities
- F6 : ORALS - HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
- F6a : Where have all the Doctors Gone?
- F6b : Texting vs. Talking: Understanding the challenges of a multigenerational healthcare workforce
- F6c : Ethical Issues Involved in Approaches to Solving Health Human Resource Capacity and Distribution Problems
- F6d : Transitioning to a new interdisciplinary model of primary care delivery: The challenges of provider expectations
- F7 : PANEL - UNCONVENTIONAL STRATEGIES AIMED AT CHANGING THE WAY WE WORK IN HEALTHCARE
- Laura Fletcher, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation; Jennifer Thornhill, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation - Part One
- Laura Fletcher, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation; Jennifer Thornhill, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation - Part Two
- G1 : PANEL - CAN THE RESULTS FROM DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS BE USED TO INFORM POLICY DECISIONS?
- Panel Intro
- Michele Kohli, University of Toronto
- Cam Donaldson, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University
- Deborah Marshall, Department of Community Health Sciences, McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, University of Calgary
- G2 : FEATURED - KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION AND EXCHANGE
- G2a : More than a shopping list: Findings and impact of a knowledge synthesis on chronic disease management and prevention
- G2b : Many Voices, One Song - The Fine Art of Collaboration in Guideline Adaptation
- G2c : The Canadian Academic Incentives Project: Experiences and perceptions shared by Canadian applied health services researchers
- G3 : ORALS - LONG TERM CARE
- G3a : Facility Ownership and Staffing Levels in BC's Long Term Care Facilities: 1995-2006
- G3b : Factors Associated with Turnover among Long Term Care Administrators and Directors of Care in Ontario
- G3c : Who is caring for residents? Characteristics of physicians practising in Ontario long-term care homes
- G3d : ADL Profiling of Nursing Home Residents in Manitoba
- G4 : ORALS - WORKFORCE LOCATION AND RETENTION
- G4a : Why physicians leave: Implications for physician retention policies
- G4b : Retention of Ontario Physiotherapists across Employment Settings
- G4c : Retention of Specialist Physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador
- G4d : Current Work Locations and Reasons for Job Choice of Graduates of Memorial University School of Pharmacy
- G5 : ORALS - PREVENTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH
- G5a : The relationship between meeting the Canada’s Food Guide (CFG), Obesity and Workforce participation
- G5b : Governing Immunization in Canada
- G5c : Risk Factors Of Recurrent Tuberculosis In British Columbia, Canada from 1990-2006
- G5d : Are preventive practices addressed in general practitioner’s clinics?
- G6 : ORALS - JOINT REPLACEMENT SERVICES AND POLICIES
- G6a : Hospitalizations, Early Revisions and Infections following Joint Replacement
- G6b : Musculoskeletal Surgery Outcome by Surgical Setting and Expedited Status in British Columbia
- G6c : Management of Hip and Knee Joint Replacement Wait Times: Policy Options for the Saskatchewan Government
- G6d : A Provincial Integrated Model to Improve Care for Patients following Hip Fracture: Helping Patients to Return Home
- G7 : PANEL - ALIGNMENT OF HEALTH QUALITY MEASUREMENT: THE WAY OUT OF INDICATOR CHAOS?
- Gary Teare, Health Quality Council – Saskatchewan
- Doug Cochrane, BC Patient Safety and Quality Council
- Tim Cooke, Health Quality Council of Alberta
- Stafford Dean, Alberta Health Services
- Eugene Wen, Canadian Institute for Health Information
- H1 : PANEL - IHSPR RISING STARS
- Mylaine Breton, University of Montreal
- Emmanuel Guindon, McMaster University
- Naomi Jones
- Andrea Tricco, Ottawa University
- Michael Wilson, McMaster University
- H2 : FEATURED - HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
- H2a : The idea of public involvement in health technology assessment (HTA) in Canada: Problems, policies, and politics
- H2c : Evaluating patient self-management interventions: Is it time to abandon QALYs and re-embrace willingness-to-pay?
- H3 : ORALS - NURSING WORKFORCE
- H3a : Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse Practitioners Roles in Canada: Findings from a National Systematic Review
- H3b : Registered practical nurses (RPNs) and interprofessional collaboration across Ontario
- H3c : Employer-provided support services and job dissatisfaction in Canadian registered nurses: Is there a relationship?
- H3d : Registered but Not Working: Employment Patterns of Nurses Outside Ontario’s Nursing Labour Market (1993-2006)
- H4 : ORALS - KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN PRACTICE
- H4a : Exploring the Knowledge Transfer Process for Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders
- H4c : Translating Evidence into Practice: How a Canadian Health Authority is Transforming Decision-Making through Geriatric Redesign
- H4d : Implementation of an educational research strategy across a national health service organization
- H5 : ORALS - DATA DEVELOPMENTS IN PRIMARY CARE AND CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT
- H5a : Developing a Primary Care Electronic Medical Record Chronic Disease Surveillance Network in Canada: Improving Data Quality
- H5b : The Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network: Creating data sources for primary care research in chronic disease
- H5c : Congestive Heart Failure (CHF): Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Operationalization of Ontario MOHLTC Guidelines
- H5d : A Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN): Initial development and privacy issues
- H6 : ORALS - HEALTH POLICY AND POLITICS
- H6a : « L’approche multisectorielle du programme VIH/sida en Haïti : une revue critique des acteurs impliqués dans sa gouverne »
- H6b : Exploring a New Ethics for Health Policy Analysis: Challenges for Ethicists and Policy Makers
- H6c : The politics of tackling service delivery problems in Québec
- H6d : Four flavours of health expenditures: Implications of their distribution for financing
- H7 : PANEL - HEALTH SERVICES UTILIZATION AND OUTCOMES: DOES ETHNICITY MATTER?