News and Events

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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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. Read more

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 Read more

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 Research Activity Updates OECD Patient Reported Indicators Survey (PaRIS) Recruitment is ongoing for the OECD Read more