46 record(s) found with the tag "health care evaluation" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Review of medical travel in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Young, Kue
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015 2014
Summary: The objective of this research project is to evaluate the impact of the upcoming Northwest Territories (NWT) Department of Health and Social Services centralized Air Ambulance Triage, Dispatch and Coordination Service entitled Med-Response. This project will track Air Ambulance and other medical travel Services in the NWT and Nunavut for 2 years prior to April 2014 and 2 years after. This is pr...


Survey of Primary Care Providers and Managers in the NWT
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...


Facilitating colorectal cancer screening access through systems analysis: A case study of the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Champion, Caitlin E
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: The objective of this research project is to determine how current health care processes and system-level factors within the Northwest Territories (NWT) health care system are influencing patient access to colorectal cancer screening. Specific objectives are to: 1) conceptualize colorectal cancer screening to identify and describe the health care processes (health system agents, interactions, ...


Developing a Cultural Safety Intervention for Clinicians: A Pilot Study
Principal Investigator: Hall, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: This research involves a process evaluation of the pilot intervention. The research objectives are: (1) to assess the process of the pilot intervention, and (2) to make recommendations to the intervention’s design, content, and delivery based on pilot findings and analysis. The research questions are: 1. How do clinicians experience or respond to the design, content and delivery of the pil...


Northwest Territory Disease Registry Study
Principal Investigator: Affleck, Ewan
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015 2014
Summary: To determine whether an electronic medical record (EMR) based clinical alert system, which uses digital inference rules to notify providers of undocumented problems, improves problem list documentation in the Northwest Territories. The EMR study will attempt to replicate the findings from a study by Wright, et al. (2012). The objective of this study was “to determine whether a clinical alerting...


The accessibility of Primary Health Care for indigenous populations living in remote communities in the Northwest Territories of Canada
Principal Investigator: Oosterveer, Tim
Licensed Year(s): 2014
Summary: The objective of the research project is to explore the challenges in the accessibility of primary health care (PHC) for the indigenous populations living in remote communities in the Northwest Territories (NWT) of Canada by providing an insight in the differences and similarities in the perspectives of multiple stakeholders regarding concepts of ‘the accessibility of PHC’. These results will supp...


Dialogue and Storywork in Support of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Cancer Patients throughout Oncology and Primary Care Transition Experiences
Principal Investigator: Corriveau, André
Licensed Year(s): 2014
Summary: The goals of this project are: 1. to improve First Nations, Inuit and Métis cancer patient transition experiences from the time of diagnosis, through treatment of care and upon discharge to a variety of community-based and primary care services; 2. to develop sustainable working relationships amongst First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities and primary and oncology care providers; 3. to i...


BETTER 2 (Building on Existing Tools to Improve Chronic Disease Prevention and Screening in Primary Care 2): Qualitative Evaluation
Principal Investigator: Manca, Donna P
Licensed Year(s): 2014
Summary: The overarching aim of BETTER 2 is to improve chronic disease prevention and screening. The purpose of the proposed evaluation is to examine how the BETTER 2 approach can be adapted to different settings in the Northwest Territories and how it can be sustained. The qualitative evaluation will draw on the perspectives of health care providers, administrators, and patients involved in the program. T...


Outcomes of primary maternity care in Fort Smith, NWT
Principal Investigator: Janssen, Patricia A
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2014 2013 2012
Summary: The objective of this project is to analyze the birth outcomes from the Fort Smith Midwifery Program. The hypothesis of this research project is that the outcomes for mothers and babies of this midwifery-based birth centre in the rural and remote town of Fort Smith, Northwest Territories (NWT) will be comparable to birth outcomes from women using the midwifery services in Nunavik, Quebec and to wo...


TRanslating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) - Qualitative Data Collection
Principal Investigator: Scott, Shannon D
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The purpose of this study is to determine the knowledge needs and preferences of healthcare providers working in general emergency departments (EDs) through an established partnership with 34 general EDs across Canada. The individual interviews, focus groups, and structured participant observation will be conducted in up to 10 of these general EDs. For the needs assessment phase of this initia...


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