End-of-Life Care (EOL)/Advance Care Planning (ACP)
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Projects in progress
- Improving advance care planning for frail elderly Canadians — John You, MD, MSc, FRCPC
- Improving Supportive End-of-Life Care in Long-Term Care: Exploring the Changing Role of Family Physicians in Care Teams — Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, BSc, MD, FRCPC
- “C5-75”: A primary care program to identify and support older adults living with frailty — Linda Lee, MD, MCISc(FM), CCFP, FCFP
- A suite of tools to support decision-making with older hospitalized patients who are frail and seriously ill — John You, MD, MSc, FRCPC
- Using an automated mortality prediction tool to focus advance care planning efforts for older inpatients who are frail — James Downar, MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC
- Rurality and frailty: What are the impacts, benefits and outcomes of paramedic palliative support at home? — Alix Carter, MD, MPH, FRCPC
- Use of an automated prospective clinical surveillance tool to drive screening for unmet palliative needs among patients in the final year of life. — James Downar, MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC
Completed projects
- Integrating a quality of life assessment and practice support system in palliative home care — Richard Sawatzky, PhD, MSc, BSc, RN
- Pilot study of an automated one-year mortality prediction tool to trigger Advance Care Planning — James Downar, MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC
- Talk to me: seriously ill patients’ views on physician behaviours that influence the quality of end-of-life communication — John You, MD, MSc, FRCPC
- iGAP: Improving General practice Advance care Planning — Michelle Howard, PhD, MSc
- Improving DECIsion-making about goals of care for hospitalized elDerly patiEnts: a “multi-incubator” study (iDECIDE) — John You, MD, MSc, FRCPC
- Helping the primary care system identify, plan, and care for seriously ill, frail elderly — Robin Urquhart, PhD
- Improving Palliative Care in Long-Term Care Homes Using Participatory Action Research — Sharon Kaasalainen, RN, BScN, MSc, PhD
- DECision-making about goals of care for hospitalized medical patiEnts II: a COMMUNICATion intErvention (DECIDE II COMMUNICATE) — Patient Data Collection and Feedback Pilot — James Downar, MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC
- Fostering End-of-Life Conversations, Community and Care Among LGBT Older Adults — Brian de Vries, PhD
- Optimizing Palliative Care in Nunavik’s Communities — Serge Dumont, PhD
- Integrated Approach to Palliative Care in Acute Care (iPAC-AC) — Kelli Stajduhar, PhD, MSN, BN, RN, CAHS
- Mixed Methods feasibility study of group peer support interventions to engage the public in ACP — Doris Barwich, MD, CCFP
- A National Comparison of Intensity of End-of-Life Care in Canada: Defining Changing Patterns, Risk Factors and Targets for Intervention — Robert Fowler, MD, MSc
- A Knowledge Translation Project on Benchmark End-of-Life Care Practices for the Elderly in Primary Care — Francis Lau, PhD, MBA, MSc
- Sex differences in admission to intensive care units: the role of social support factors — Allan Garland, MD, MA
- Web-Based Videoconferencing (WBVC) for Rural Palliative Care Consultation in the Home — Linda Read Paul, RN, MN, CHPCN(C)
- Systematic scoping review and meta analysis of end-of-life decision making tools and strategies — John You, MD, MSc, FRCPC