• Harm reduction in name, but not substance: a comparative analysis of current Canadian provincial and territorial policy frameworks 

  Hyshka, Elaine; Anderson-Baron, Jalene; Karekezi, Kamagaju; Belle-Isle, Lynne; Elliott, Richard; Pauly, Bernie; Strike, Carol; Asbridge, Mark; Dell, Colleen; McBride, Keely; Hathaway, Andrew; Wild, T. Cameron (Harm Reduction Journal, 2017)

  Background: In Canada, funding, administration, and delivery of health services—including those targeting people who use drugs—are primarily the responsibility of the provinces and territories. Access to harm reduction ...
• What do key informants think about information quality in acute care in relation to information technology: an exploratory study 

  Keay, Elizabeth (2018-10-09)

  The published literature indicates that large information system implementations are often expensive failures with costs to human safety largely because of missing or corrupt information. This has generated the overall ...
• Sometimes even a single feather is enough to fly: a hermeneutic journey through rites of passage in outdoor education 

  Minichiello, Miles (2018-10-02)

  Rite of passage is a term that is used widely and uncritically in the field of outdoor education. This hermeneutic research project explores how a third-generation Canadian outdoor educator explores how rites of passage ...
• User perspectives of electronic referral to inform pan-Canadian implementation 

  Alarakhia, Mohamed (2018-10-01)

  Long wait times for elective services are seen as one of the major challenges for Canadian healthcare. Canadians report that they wait longer for specialists than citizens in other countries. An average of 25% of patients ...
• Evaluating the effect of display size on the usability and the perceptions of safety of a mobile handheld application for accessing electronic medical records 

  Minshall, Simon (2018-09-27)

  INTRODUCTION: While mobile device use by physicians increases, there is an increased risk that errors committed while using mobile devices can lead to harm. This mixed-method study evaluates the effects of screen size ...
• Clinical Resource Utilization Assessment of Device Follow-up Clinic’s Remote Monitoring Service of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices 

  Leung, Lisa W.S. (2018-09-21)

  Background: With the maturity and wide availability of the telecommunication technology, the remote interrogation or remote monitoring of a cardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED) has become an increasingly ...
• Shared decision-making using personal health record technology: a scoping review at the crossroads 

  Davis, Selena; Roudsari, Abdul; Raworth, Rebecca; Courtney, Karen L.; MacKay, Lee (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2017)

  Objective. This scoping review aims to determine the size and scope of the published literature on shared decision-making (SDM) using personal health record (PHR) technology and to map the literature in terms of system ...
• Sheltered work to social enterprise: a case study of Haley Street Adult Services Centre Society 

  Power, Adam (2018-09-11)

  Supportive work programs for people with disabilities have historically included sheltered workshops; while social enterprises are now more commonly found in policies and programs providing opportunities to address social, ...
• Shared decision making via personal health record technology as normalized practice for youth with Type 1 diabetes 

  Davis, Selena (2018-09-04)

  Engaging youth with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the self-management of daily tasks and decision- making provides opportunities for positive health outcomes. However, emerging adulthood and care transitions are associated with ...
• Knowledge translation pathways: A tool for competency evaluation & professional development 

  Mallidou, Anastasia; Frisch, Noreen; Atherton, Pat; Chan, Liza; Glegg, Stephanie; Scarrow, Gayle; Creighton, Gen; Collins, Jessica (2018-09-04)

  Based on our scoping review on knowledge translation (KT) competencies, we also developed a self-assessment tool (the KT Pathways) for professional development of three target audiences (i.e., knowledge users, knowledge ...
• A Practicum of Fairness: Smart Practices for Undergraduate Professional Program Practicum Assessment 

  Saab, Ada (2018-08-30)

  Ombudsperson offices have identified the practicum process as a source of misunderstanding and grievance among professional programs in higher education. This project takes a participatory needs assessment and smart practices ...
• Reclaiming spaces between: Coast Salish Two Spirit identities and experiences 

  Sparrow, Corrina (2018-08-30)

  The seed for this research germinated deep in the lands of our Coast Salish ancestors thousands of years ago. As a Coast Salish Two Spirit researcher, I noticed there is a striking absence of west coast Indigenous and Coast ...
• When cancer hits the streets 

  Stajduhar, Kelli I.; Mollison, A.; Gleave, D.; Hwang, S. W. (Current Oncology, 2017)
• Telling our stories: heroin-assisted treatment and SNAP activism in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver 

  Boyd, Susan; Murray, Dave; SNAP; MacPherson, Donald (Harm Reduction Journal, 2017)

  Background: This article highlights the experiences of a peer-run group, SALOME/NAOMI Association of Patients (SNAP), that meets weekly in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. SNAP is a unique ...
• Stories of Learning and Becoming: Emerging Programming with/in a First Nations Child Care Programs 

  Hayes, Stephanie D. (2018-08-17)

  There is growing interest in emerging ECE programming that is situated in and emerges from and within the local culture and context. Emergent approaches, such as the municipal preschools in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and New ...
• Integrated HIV care and service engagement among people living with HIV who use drugs in a setting with a community-wide treatment as prevention initiative: A qualitative study in Vancouver, Canada 

  Collins, Alexandra B.; Parashar, Surita; Hogg, Robert S.; Fernando, Saranee; Worthington, Catherine; McDougall, Patrick; Baltzer Turje, Rosalind; McNeil, Ryan (Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2017-03)

  Introduction: Social-structural inequities impede access to, and retention in, HIV care among structurally vulnerable people living with HIV (PLHIV) who use drugs. The resulting disparities in HIV-related outcomes among ...
• Fear, Risk, and the Responsible Choice: Risk Narratives and Lowering the Rate of Caesarean Sections in High-income Countries 

  Hallgrimsdottir, Helga; Shumka, Leah; Althaus, Catherine; Benoit, Cecilia (AIMS Public Health, 2017)

  In Canada, as elsewhere in the world, caesarean sections are the most common surgical procedure performed in hospitals annually. Recent national statistics indicate 28% of infants in Canada are born by c-section while in ...
• Heuristics for Comparing the Lengths of Completed E-TSP Tours: Crossings and Areas 

  MacGregor, James N. (Journal of Problem Solving, 2017)

  The article reports three experiments designed to explore heuristics used in comparing the lengths of completed Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem (E-TSP) tours. The experiments used paired comparisons in which participants ...
• Sustainable by design: how to build better institutions for fisheries management in British Columbia 

  Mitchell, Darcy Anne (2018-07-25)

  The contemporary crisis in the world's fisheries has been both predictable and predicted for several decades, and has assumed a consistent pattern: as stocks are fished to commercial extinction, fishing effort is displaced ...
• Health Equity Talk: Understandings of Health Equity among Health Leaders 

  Pauly, Bernadette M.; Shahram, Sana Z.; Dang, Phuc T. H.; Marcellus, Lenora; MacDonald, Marjorie (AIMS Public Health, 2017)

  Introduction: Reducing health inequities is a stated goal of health systems worldwide. There is widespread commitment to health equity among public health leaders and calls for reorientation of health systems towards health ...

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