Health Systems
The Health Systems Area of Excellence (AoE) develops knowledge about health system learning and innovation to guide evidence-based practice and evidence-informed decision- and policy making across health care sectors and acute, continuing, ambulatory and community settings.
Items in this Collection
- 23Estabrooks, C.A.
- 15Cummings, G. G.
- 14Cummings, G.G.
- 13Estabrooks, C. A.
- 11Squires, J.E.
- 10Norton, P.G.
- 15Knowledge translation
- 12Systematic reviews
- 10Long-term care
- 9Implementation
- 8Nurses
- 8Quality improvement
- 139Nursing, Faculty of
- 139Nursing, Faculty of/Health Systems
- 3Nursing, Faculty of/Nursing Education
- 3Medicine and Dentistry, Faculty of
- 3Medicine and Dentistry, Faculty of/Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence (ARCHE)
- 2Nursing, Faculty of/Health Equity
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Partners in Research: Building Academic-Practice Partnerships to Educate and Mentor Advanced Practice Nurses
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McKinlay, James, Valaitis, Ruta, Sherifali, Diana, Donald, Faith, Bryant-Lukosius, Denise, Carter, Nancy, Covell, Christine L., Tranmer, Joan, Kilpatrick, Kelley, Harbman, Patricia, Rawson, Krista, Gibbins, Sharyn, Martin-Misener, Ruth
Rationale: Clinical practice is the primary focus of advanced practice nursing (APN) roles. However, with unprecedented needs for healthcare reform and quality improvement (QI), healthcare administrators are seeking new ways to utilize all dimensions of APN expertise, especially related to...
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2008
Boschma, G., Stevens, B., Estabrooks, C.A., Humphrey, C.K., Lander, J., Donner, G., Scott, S., Williams, J., Profetto-McGrath, J., McGilton, K., Watt-Watson, J., Squires, J., O'Brien-Pallas, L., Golden-Biddle, K.
Background: Organizational context plays a central role in shaping the use of research by healthcare professionals. The largest group of professionals employed in healthcare organizations is nurses, putting them in a position to influence patient and system outcomes significantly. However,...
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2015
Fuentes, Jorge, Cummings, Greta G., Ha, Christine, Egger, Matthias, da Costa, Bruno R., Saltaji, Humam, Armijo-Olivo, Susan
Objective: There is debate on how the methodological quality of clinical trials should be assessed. We compared trials of physical therapy (PT) judged to be of adequate quality based on summary scores from the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale with trials judged to be of adequate...
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Perceptions of family and staff on the role of the environment in long-term care homes for people with dementia
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Background: Disruptive behaviors are frequent and often the first predictor of institutionalization. The goal of this multi-center study was to explore the perceptions of family and staff members on the potential contribution of environmental factors that influence disruptive behaviors and...
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Poor reliability between Cochrane reviewers and blinded external reviewers when applying the Cochrane risk of bias tool in physical therapy trials.
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Saltaji, H., Ha, C., Cummings, G. G., da Costa, B. R., Armijo-Olivo, S., Egger, M., Ospina, M., Fuentes, J.
Objectives: To test the inter-rater reliability of the RoB tool applied to Physical Therapy (PT) trials by comparing ratings from Cochrane review authors with those of blinded external reviewers. Methods: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in PT were identified by searching the Cochrane Database...
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2013
Knopp-Sihota, J., Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.
Background In recent years, improving the quality of care for nursing home residents has generated a considerable amount of attention. In response, quality indicators (QIs), based on available evidence and expert consensus, have been identified within the Resident Assessment Instrument – Minimum...
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2015
Heaman, Maureen, Brownell, Marni, Kingston, Dawn, Ekuma, Okechukwu
Background: Few studies have explored predictors of early childhood anxiety. Objective: To determine the prenatal, postnatal, and early life predictors of childhood anxiety by age 5. Methods: Population-based, provincial administrative data (N = 19,316) from Manitoba, Canada were used to...
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2009
Pretorius, V., Majumdar, S.R., McAlister, F.A., Ross, D.B., Norris, C.M., Kapoor, A.S., Mohamed, R.
Background. It has been suggested that the routine use of statins preoperatively would reduce the risk of postoperative infection. We conducted this study to explore whether preoperative statin use was associated with infection after cardiac surgery (recipients of which have a higher-than-average...
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2011
Currie, C. L., Wild, T. C., Schopflocher, D. P.
Objective: We examined the prevalence and correlates of prescription drug misuse (PDM) in a population-based sample of adults from Alberta. Methods: Data were collected from 3511 adults in Alberta aged 18 years and older in 2002 using a computer-aided telephone survey; the survey response rate...
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2007
Warren, K. G., Patten, S. B., Schopflocher, D. P., Metz, L. M., Warren, S., Svenson, L. W.
BACKGROUND: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is reported to be uncommon among North American aboriginals despite frequent intermarriage with people of European ancestry, but few population-based studies have been conducted. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of MS among First...