News & Events

2011

December 14 – Grand Opening of the Centre for Practice-Changing Research

The Patient Decision Aid Research Group have moved into the new Centre for Practice-Changing Research. More information here.

September 23 – Shared Decision Making Workshop Training the Trainers

This workshop is for health care professionals (any discipline) who want to learn how to develop and use shared decision making skills and who want to go on to teach others. To be held in Cardiff, Wales. More information here.

September 22-23 – The World Congress Annual Leadership Summit on Shared Decision Making

It will provide practitioners, policy makers and payers with a state-of-the-art discussion on the potential of Shared Decision Making to decrease over-utilization of certain services and treatments while increasing patient engagement and satisfaction with care. To be held in Vienna, Virginia, US. More information here.

August 28-30 – Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice

Implementation and Evaluation of Patient Decision Support Strategies in Hanover, New Hampshire, US. More information here.

August 12 – Impact Factor report

The 2010 Impact Factor for Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is 6.186. The individualized Impact Factor for the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Cochrane Review Group is 14.778. Our intervention review "Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions" was the 10th most cited Cochrane review. More information here.

June 19-22 – ISDM

6th International Shared Decision Making Conference in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

June 18 – Online Inventory of Shared Decision Making Training Programs

As a part of the "Effective Continuing Professional Development for Translating Shared Decision Making in Primary Care" project funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, France Légaré announced the creation of an inventory of programs and training activities dedicated to shared decision making.

June 9 – Annual Report

2010-2011 Patient Decision Aids Research Group Annual Report for the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing.

April 16 – 14th convention of the Québec Medical Association

Dr France Légaré MD PhD CCFP FCFP, received the 2011 Alain-Cloutier Award. The award is granted to a physician who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in promoting innovative technology projects that have had an impact on medical organization and practice in a Québec region. Dr Légaré received the award for her work in the deployment of one of Canada's largest primary care-based clinical research networks for shared decision making.

March 27 – Interprofessional Workshop

IP Shared Decision Making: Building knowledge and skills for use in practice in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

March 24 – Congratulations to Sandy Dunn

She successfully defended her University of Ottawa PhD dissertation last week. Her research "Interprofessional Shared Decision-Making in NICU: A Mixed Method Design" is adding valuable new knowledge in the areas of decision-making, interprofessional collaboration, and communication. The examiners were so impressed with Sandy's work that they will be nominating her for a University of Ottawa award.

February 17 – Special edition of Health Expectations

Special Issue: Shared Decision Making: Vision to Reality, 2009 International Shared Decision Making Conference, 14-17 June 2009, Boston, Massachusetts, USA is now available online.

Jan 24 – The New York Times Health blog

The "Making Choices: Long Term Feeding Tube Placement in Elderly Patients" decision aid is mentioned in The New York Times Health blog The New Old Age - Caring and Coping entry entitled "When They Cannot Eat."

2010

December 12-17 – Salzburg Global Seminar

Health and Healthcare Seminar Series II. The Greatest Untapped Resource in Healthcare? Informing and Involving Patients in Decisions about Their Medical Care in Salzburg, Austria.

November 18 – Patient and Public Involvement

Transforming Care through Shared Decision Making in Manchester, UK.

November – Article in Canadian Nurse

Patient decision aids help answer “What’s best for me?”.

October 24-27 – SMDM Annual Meeting

32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making "Evidence, Economics & Ethics: The Future of Health Technology Assessment" in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

October 07 – MDM Special Issue

Medical Decision Making, the journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making, published a special supplement exploring the results of the DECISIONS study, a national U.S. survey conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan which polled more than 3000 U.S. adults about nine common medical decisions.

September 5-8 – EACH Conference

European Association for Communication in Healthcare International Conference on Communication in Healthcare in Verona, Italy.

June 10 – Pass it on!

The Ottawa Hospital: Supporting patients in making decisions about their care. Patient decision support implementation research by Geoffrey Dervin and Dawn Stacey featured in the “Pass it On!” series published by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation.

May 19-20 – Canadian Cochrane Symposium

8th Annual Canadian Cochrane Symposium "Evidence in Uncertain Times: Meeting the Challenge" in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

May 6-7 – ODSF Workshop

The Patient Decision Aid Research Group welcomed 40 participants to a two-day workshop to discuss The Ottawa Decision Support Framework: Update, Gaps and Research Priorities in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

January 18-19 – CIHR Primary Healthcare Summit

Patient-Oriented Primary Care - Scaling Up Innovation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Includes workshop titled "Implementation an of interprofessional approach to shared decision making in primary care".

2009

October 18-21 – SMDM Annual Meeting

31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making "Clinical Decisions in Changing Environments: Patients, Providers, and Policy" in Hollywood, California, USA.

June 14-17 - ISDM

5^th International Shared Decision Making Conference in Boston, USA.

June 7 – Launch of the CHIIN Web site

Official launch of the Canadian Healthcare Influenza Immunization Network (CHIIN) Web site (www.chiin.ca) at the Canadian Public Health Association 2009 Annual Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

May 28 – iShould application on Facebook released

We launched our new application based on the OPDG that helps people make difficult decisions and get feedback from their friends on Facebook. OHRI iShould press release.

April 15 – One Click to The Cochrane Library!

Great news! The Cochrane Library, as part of a pilot project, is now available throughout Canada to everyone with Internet access. As of April 15, and until the end of 2009, everyone is one click away from the wealth of information contained in the Library. Practitioners, researchers and patients alike will be able to make informed decisions what treatments work best.

Visit www.thecochranelibrary.com and spread the word to your friends and colleagues about this great announcement. The more people who use the Library in the coming months, the better the chance of obtaining a permanent license and making Canada-wide access a reality into 2010 and beyond!

2007

August – Washington State Legislature Health Care bill includes decision aids.

SB 5930 - 2007-08 Providing high quality, affordable health care to Washingtonians based on the recommendations of the blue ribbon commission on health care costs and access.

2006

April 25 – Launch of Chilean Project Focuses on Decision Support for Type 2 Diabetics

The Pontificia Catholic University of Chile officially launched a 30-month research projected funded by the Chilean Fund for the Promotion of Scientific and Technological Development (FONDEF) of CONICYT (National Science Fund). The project is titled "Development of a telephone medicated self-care decision support program as an innovative component of primary health care delivery model in Chile as a method to improve health decision making, self-care, user satisfaction, and metabolic compensation among people with diabetes". Annette O'Connor, Dawn Stacey, and Peter Tugwell of the University of Ottawa and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute are co-investigators on the project.