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Wishing you all a wonderful summer ahead! Below we outline Network research progress, upcoming events and news from our partners, and news from the Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN). In This Update Recruitment: SPIDER (Structured Process Informed by Data, Evidence and Research) Recruitment: UBC Innovation Support Unit BC Team-based Primary Care Evaluation Recruitment: CanTreatCOVID…

Congratulations to Rubee Dev and Nathaniel Hawkins, co-applicants on a large national team funded by the Canada Biomedical Research Fund to create a new approach to pandemic preparedness. Led by Andrew Pinto and the Upstream Lab at Unity Health Toronto, the project will improve the monitoring and early detection of pathogens while accelerating the development…

Thursday, May 30, 2024 | 12:00-1:30 pm PT | Zoom | Register: https://bit.ly/tbcubc_may30 Join TBC@UBC at an upcoming event to explore collaborative efforts for advancing team-based care in BC. We’ll dive into four ideas: Build a network of healthcare educators engaged with interprofessional education placements Research the implementation of primary care teams, with focus on…

Promising Policies for Advancing Access to Primary Care Session 1 of Learning Series 2 is about workforce strategies needed to advance access to primary care. Virtual Event: May 28, 2024 | 9-10 am PT Panelist Professor, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions…

The BC Primary Health Care Research Network is looking for two patient partners interested in joining the Patient Partner Advisory Committee and supporting the next Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) conference—March 2025. CHSPR has a well‐established regional, national, and international reputation for health services and policy research in the fields of health…

We hope this year has started off well for each of you. We are excited to share some BC-PHCRN updates regarding research progress, upcoming (and past) events as well as news from the Canadian Primary Care Research Network! Growing our Network – Share this Newsletter We welcome you to share our newsletter with anyone in…

Happy holidays from the BC Primary Health Care Research Network! It’s been a wonderful year connecting with all of you, whether over events or through research collaborations. Before we part for the break, we wanted to share our year in review, research progress, and upcoming events! Growing our Network – Share this Newsletter We welcome…

Several Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN) project leads and representatives presented at the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) conference in San Francisco Oct 30 to Nov 3 and the Family Medicine Forum (FMF) in Montreal Nov 8-11. You can see the NAPCRG and FMF presentations here.

Nathaniel Hawkins and colleagues explored the intersection of heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in terms of disease burden, healthcare utilization, and treatment with data from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN), finding that patients with either or both conditions are high utilizers of primary care, but the majority of visits…

Welcome back and happy autumn BC-PHCRN community! We hope you enjoyed a restful summer. Our Network has been busy with ongoing primary care research projects, and are excited to share the following updates, events and recent collaborations! In This Update OECD Patient Reported Indicators Survey (PaRIS) SPIDER – A research and quality improvement collaboration supporting…