NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Young, Kue
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015 2014
Summary: To assess the views of health care providers and managers in the Northwest Territories (NWT) regarding primary health care in the community in general and issues related to medical travel in particular. A survey questionnaire will be filled out by the respondent, who has a choice of mailing in a paper copy or completing online. The survey is anonymous – information on name, community of residen...

Principal Investigator: Estabrooks, Carole A
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015 2014
Summary: The purpose of the study is to identify and understand existing advice seeking networks among nursing homes in Canada. The overall objectives of the study are to: 1. Identify the structure of existing informal inter-organizational relationships among 958 nursing homes in Atlantic, Western and Northern Canada; 2. identify which nursing homes within the overall network link different groups of ho...

Principal Investigator: St. Pierre, Isabelle
Licensed Year(s): 2014
Summary: The goal of this project is to identify factors that support the successful integration, retention and career advancement of internationally educated nurses (IENs) into the Canadian healthcare system. This can guide potential IENs by helping them understand how to prepare for employment as a nurse in Canada. The research will also better assist educators and employers to develop the most app...

Principal Investigator: MacLeod, Martha
Licensed Year(s): 2015 2014 2013 2012
Summary: The objective of this research project is to develop a survey instrument for planning primary health care for nursing groups within the NWT. Nursing Practice in Rural and Remote Canada II is a four-year research project that aims to examine how the roles, work settings and practice modes of registered nurses (RNs), nurse practitioners (NPs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered psych...

Principal Investigator: Mitton, Craig
Licensed Year(s): 2012 2011
Summary: The intent of this project is to develop an evaluative framework that identifies how health care organizations can be transformed to achieve excellence in priority setting and resource management. The ultimate aim is to form a benchmark of behaviors, processes and structures that can aid in directing organizations towards high performance. Phase One: On-line survey of senior administrators in ...

Principal Investigator: Simor, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: Primary Study Objectives: • To determine the prevalence of MRSA and VRE colonization and infection among adults hospitalized in Canadian hospitals; • To determine the prevalence of C. difficile infection among adults hospitalized in Canadian hospitals. Secondary Study Objectives: • To describe demographic and select clinical/epidemiologic features of patients with prevalent MRSA, VRE, and C....

Principal Investigator: Hoechsmann, Alexander
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The objectives of this study are: 1) To better understand the existing medical travel system for patients requiring emergency medical care; 2) To capture any potential areas where emergency health care could be improved by changing how and possibly where emergency health care is delivered; 3) To capture any potential areas where there is duplication and redundancy or other forms of inefficiency...

Principal Investigator: Benerji, Anna
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2008 2008
Summary: Primary Objectives: 1) To identify the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other respiratory viruses associated with lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) admissions to regional and tertiary centres over a 18 month period for infants <1 year old living in the Canadian Arctic 2) To stratify the RSV LRTI admissions into categories by location (town with a hospital verses rural) and age (<1 ye...

Principal Investigator: Kandola, Kami
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: Primary objective: To describe the presenting patient characteristics, organ dysfunction, clinical outcomes and resource needs of influenza-H1N1-related critical illness and acute lung injury among children and adults in Canada. Our primary endpoint will be survival and the secondary endpoint will be critical care-free days, both at 90 days after onset of critical illness. Secondary main object...

Principal Investigator: Bresnahan, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: This study aims to support the work of the Aklavik Health Committee, and to offer tools to help improve health promotion practice in the north. To accomplish this, this study has two research objectives: 1) to list and identify all health promotion programs currently underway in the community of Aklavik, NT; 2) to identify popular perceptions of the meaning of health, the most significant barrie...