Research Report
Tutor-PHC Program is now recruiting primary health care research trainees, clinicians, and decision maker trainees for the 2023-2024 Program. Application Deadline is December 19, 2022. For more information, please visit our Tutor-PHC website or view the flyer.
Grant Funding Announcement
Congratulations to the following research teams for their recent grant funding awards!
Title: Access to primary care, preventative care, chronic disease management and patient outcomes in alternative primary care remuneration models
Granting Agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Investigators: Sarma S(PI), Anderson K, Bauer G, Belhadji B, Clemens K, Devlin RA, Garg A, Jaakkimainen L, Kim R, Mathews M, McKay S, Mehta N, Nauenberg E, Sowerby L, Stranges S, Suskin N, Thind A, Zaric G, Zou GY
Program: Project Grant- Bridge Grant
Grant Duration: 2022-2023
Funding Amount: $100,000
Title: Virtual models of nursing care within primary care settings: A scoping review
Granting Agency: Memorial University
Investigators: Lukewich J (PI), Asghari S, Mathews M, Swab M, Poitras M-E, Hedden L
Program: Seed Grant
Grant Duration: 2022-2023
Funding Amount: $10,000
Presentations
Dr. Tom Freeman, was part of a Keynote Panel, discussing “The Art of Practicing Medicine” at the OntarioMD, Digital Health & Virtual Care Conference on September 29, 2022.
Dr. Jane Thornton presented at the following events in October 2022.
- Keynote Speaker. “Female athlete health across the lifespan”. Swiss Sports Medicine Congress. Interlaken, Switzerland.
- Invited Lecturer. “Female athlete health: a Canadian approach”. Swiss Sports Medicine Congress. Interlaken, Switzerland.
- Invited Lecturer. “Women’s Health in Sport and Exercise Medicine”. Sport Medicine Under the Aurora. Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine and Yukon Medical Association Joint Conference. (Virtual).
- Lebrun C, Doyle-Baker P, Thornton J. ““Take My Breath Away”- Asthma In Female Athletes: Effects Of Reproductive Hormones And Strategies For Screening And Management” [Symposium]. CSEP Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick.
The North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG), 50th Anniversary Conference took place November 18-22, 2022, at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown in Phoenix, Arizona.
Members of the Department of Family Medicine presented their research via oral, poster, and workshop sessions.
Oral Presentations:
Kueper J, Rayner J, Zwarenstein M, Lizotte D. Using epidemiology and artificial intelligence to describe a complex primary care population in a learning health system. 2022 Nov 19.
McKay S, Terry AL, Wakabayashi AT, Schulz C. It’s not lack of access: Non-urgent Emergency Department use by patients with 24/7 access to primary care. 2022 Nov 19.
Thorpe C, Brown JB, Terry AL, Ryan BL, Clark R, Jan SH. The Evolution of Family Physician Leadership in Health System Change. 2022 Nov 19.
Marshall EG, Buote R, Moritz L, Lukewich J, Mathews M, Hedden L. “Delays, delays, delays” – Family physicians’ experiences managing patients and accessing specialists during COVID-19. 2022 Nov 19.
Ranade S, Thind A, Brown JB, Freeman T. Enacting Care by Being Experts and Managing Relationships: A Discourse Analysis of Medical Officer of Health Media Briefings. 2022 Nov 20.
Workshop:
McCallum M, MacFarlane A, Stewart M, Mair F, Smith S, Sturgiss L, Macdonald S. What does Person Centred Care look like when the System doesn’t work? 2022 Nov 19.
Plenary:
Stewart M, Olde Hartman T, Westfall J, Felzien M. Celebrating the Present - “We are doing all this.” 2022 Nov 21.
Posters:
Ashcroft R, Brown JB, Sheffield P, Mehta K, Adamson K, Lam S, Donnelly C. A Qualitative Examination of Primary Care’s Role in the Vaccination Efforts for COVID-19. 2022 Nov 19.
Ashcroft R, Hussain A, Rayner J, Mehta K, Brown JB, Sur D, Adamson K, Lam S, Sheffield P, Donnelly C, Feryn N. An Examination of Social Work Practice in Primary Care Teams across Ontario - A Mixed-Methods Study. 2022 Nov 21.
Premji K, Ryan BL, Frymire E, Khan S, Schultz S, Green M, Glazier R, Nastos S, Mathews M. Who will be left behind? The anticipated impacts of an aging family physician workforce on primary care patients in Ontario. 2022 Nov 21.
Lukewich J, Poitras M-E, Leamon T, Mathews M, Aubrey-Bassler FK. Primary Care Nursing Competencies in Undergraduate Nursing Programs: A National Survey. 022 Nov 21.
Frymire E, Jaakkimainen L, Khan S, Premji K, Glazier R, Kiran T, Bayoumi I, Mathews M. Trends in centralized wait list data for attachment to a primary care provider in Ontario: Health Care Connect: 2011-2021. 2022 Nov 21.
Greiver M, Lizotte D, Seth P, Alarakhia M, Gronsbell J, Terry AL, Kavanagh D. Intelligent automation to improve chronic disease identification and coding in primary care: a Learning Health System approach. 2022 Nov 21.
The Family Medicine Forum took place November 9-12, 2022, in person at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre as well as Virtually on November 16-19, 2022.
Graves L, Lawrence K, Dalton D, MacDonald S, Anduze M, Desrosiers P, Horvey S, Kilvert V, De S, Brown JB, Koo C, Hosain J. Practice Makes Perfect: How to become a SOO practice examiner. November 11, 2022.
Grundland B, Herzog L, Ryan BL, Forsey J, Stewart M. Patient and Person Centered Virtual Care. November 17, 2022.
Publications
Banerjee K, Thind A, Bhatnagar N, Singla B, Agria K, Bajaj P, Jindal A, Arora S, Goyal P, Mittal B, Malhotra K, Pai H, Malhotra J, Goel P, Jindal N. Effect of Reproductive and Lifestyle Factors on Anti-Mullerian Hormone Levels in Women of Indian Origin. J Hum Reprod Sci. 2022 Jul-Sep;15(3):259-271. doi:10.4103/jhrs.jhrs_79_22. Epub 2022 Sep 30
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36341011/
Giraudeau B, Caille A, Eldridge SM, Weijer C, Zwarenstein M, Taljaard M. Heterogeneity in pragmatic randomised trials: sources and management. BMC Med. 2022 Oct 28;20(1):372. doi: 10.1186/s12916-022-02569-w.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36303153/
Hadwen B, Pila E, Thornton J. The Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Physical and Mental Health, and Physical Activity: A Scoping Review. J Phys Act Health. 2022 Nov 1:1-8. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2022-0298. Epub ahead of print.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36318916/
Isenor JE, Cossette B, Murphy AL, Breton M, Mathews M, Moritz LR, Buote R, McCarthy L, Woodill L, Morrison B, Guénette L, Marshall EG. Community pharmacists' expanding roles in supporting patients before and during COVID-19: An exploratory qualitative study. Int J Clin Pharm. 2022 Oct 26:1-15. doi: 10.1007/s11096-022-01430-7. Online ahead of print.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36289174/
Khunti K, Aroda VR, Aschner P, Chan JCN, Del Prato S, Hambling CE, Harris S, Lamptey R, McKee M, Tandon N, Valabhji J, Seidu S. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diabetes services: planning for a global recovery. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2022 Nov 7:S2213-8587(22)00278-9. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(22)00278-9. Online ahead of print.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(22)00278-9.
Phillips WR, Herbert CP. What makes family doctors the leaders we need in health care? Can Fam Physician. 2022 Nov;68(11):801-802. doi: 10.46747/cfp.6811801.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36376031/
Sharma T, Qamar I, Zwarenstein M. How pragmatic are randomized trials of Remdesivir and Favipiravir for in-hospital treatment of Covid-19: A descriptive methodological review of trial design using the PRECIS-2 framework. J Clin Epidemiol. 2022 Oct 18:S0895-4356(22)00260-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.10.013. Epub ahead of print.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36265553/
Online ahead of print.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36269200/
