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 - January 9, 2018 -

Meet Our Partners | Jim Christenson and the BC Emergency Medicine Network

 
In each issue of the News, we profile a member of the BC AHSN community. This month, we feature Jim Christenson, Executive Lead of the BC Emergency Medicine Network (BC EM Network).

Jim Christenson is an emergency physician working at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, professor and department head of emergency medicine at UBC, and leads the BC EM Network. His clinical and research experience stimulated an idea to combine the expertise of clinicians and academics in a more effective way to change the way emergency practitioners in the province communicate and share knowledge.
 

"Let’s truly integrate traditional academics and clinical expertise – not just from universities – and share it across the province."

- Jim Christenson



Read about how the EM Network has broken down traditional silos in health research by creating a provincial team focused on providing excellent emergency care, to encourage collaboration and new partnerships.
Read the full profile

Clinical Trials BC News | Phase two of quality management system for clinical regulations launched in BC

A revision of the International Good Clinical Practice document, ICH E6R2, will be implemented in Canada effective April 1st, 2019. This document, replacing a previous version, is far more descriptive of the requirements for quality and risk management components at the institution, program and site levels. 

Coinciding with this change, Clinical Trials BC identified the challenges associated with individual institutions implementing quality systems and launched a new phase of an accessible Quality Management System (QMS) Program for BC researchers and institutes. The program is available to academic-health-science-associated institutions, programs and centres, and specialized sites.

Clinical Trials BC’s provincial approach provides research organizations, programs or centres with nine pre-developed quality management systems (policies, Standard Operating Procedures, forms, trackers) and supporting tools (manuals, development plans), designed to be adaptable to the institution.

Click the button below to learn more about Clinical Trials BC's new provincial QMS program.

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BC SUPPORT Unit News | Unit and Popdata BC to lead January 21 webinar on release of 16-year survey results

Join the BC SUPPORT Unit and Population Data BC for a webinar (January 21st, 2019, from noon to 1:00pm) geared to BC researchers about the first-time release of survey results of information collected beginning in 2003. Donna Tafreshi, Lena Cuthbertson, Rick Sawatzky and Sarah Kesselring will lead the presentation and discussion.

Beginning 16 years ago, the BC Patient-Centred Measurement Working Group has led the province's strategy for patient-centred measurement, using sophisticated survey instruments that give people who use BC's health care services the opportunity to assess the quality and safety of the health care system. Patients’ self-reporting of their experiences (and since 2016, their health-related quality of life/health care outcomes) are collected using Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMS) and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS).

For the very first time, this collected survey information will be available through Population Data BC to analyse and inform future patient-oriented research.

Find out more

Clinical Trials BC News | Article published by Canadian clinical trials research partnership is now open access

Clinical Trials BC, in partnership with Clinical Trials Ontario, has published an open-access journal article in SAGE Publications. 

The article describes a survey of 1,602 adults in BC and Ontario about their awareness and perceptions of clinical trials. The researchers found that clinical trials are regarded positively with overall perceptions that they provide societal and personal benefits. Read the full article here.

  • In case you missed it: Clinical Trials BC's first professional certification preparation session will be held on January 30th at our office in Vancouver. Register here.
  • Our CEO, Tom Noseworthy, will be speaking at LifeSciences BC's Access to Innovation conference in Vancouver on January 30th. Find out more.
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Upcoming Events | Webinar about evidence-informed health systems to be held on January 23

McMaster University, through the McMaster Health Forum, will be holding a webinar on January 23rd, 2019, 9:00am-10:00am Pacific Time (12:00pm Eastern) called "Top ten lessons learned from supporting evidence-informed health systems: EVIPNet Europe." 

EVIPNet Europe was established in 2012 to promote the systematic use of health research evidence in policy-making. Presenter Tanja Kuchenmüller will highlight successes and share some of the lessons that her team have learned since launching EVIPNet Europe.

Register for the webinar
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