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Patient and Family Focus

Explore the Department of Critical Care Research patient and family focused initiatives. Content includes featured stories, article links and research notes.

Bonnie’s inspiration

Bonnie’s inspiration

How a mother’s battle with delirium serves as one woman’s inspiration to help others.

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Dr. Stelfox Collaborates with Patients' Families to Transform Critical Care in Alberta

Dr. Stelfox Collaborates with Patients' Families to Transform Critical Care in Alberta

Dr. Tom Stelfox is developing new measures for quality of care from the family perspective.

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Three ways to engage the public in changing health care through research

Three ways to engage the public in changing health care through research

According to the Institute of Medicine, there is an average lag of 17 years between the generation of evidence through randomized controlled trials and its subsequent implementation into the health system.

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More Articles

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Engaging the Public to Identify Opportunities to Improve Critical Care: A Qualitative Analysis of an Open Community Forum

Melissa L Potestio, Jamie M. Boyd, Sean M. Bagshaw, Daren Heyland, Peter Oxland, Christopher J. Doig, Dave Zygun, Henry T. Stelfox

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In the pursuit of partnership: patient and family engagement in critical care medicine

Christian Farrier, Henry Stelfox, Kirsten Fiest

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Translating evidence to patient care through caregivers: a systematic review of caregiver-mediated interventions

Kirsten M. Fiest, Christiane Job McIntosh, Danielle Demiantschuk, Jeanna Parsons Leigh, Henry T. Stelfox 

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Patient and Family Member-Led Research in the Intensive Care Unit: A Novel Approach to Patient-Centered Research

Gill M, Bagshaw SM, McKenzie E, Oxland P, Oswell D, Boulton D, Niven DJ, Potestio ML, Shklarov S, Marlett N, Stelfox HT; Critical Care Strategic Clinical Network

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Research Notes

As a way to connect the Department of Critical Care’s (University of Calgary) multitude of research projects to the general public, a series of easier to understand summaries of published research papers called “Research Notes” are being created. 

These summaries are void of most jargon and focus on the results and positive aspects of the research. (Only studies free to the public are eligible to have a summary created for them.)  The goal is to be able to inform a complete outsider of the importance and impact of our research.  Making the content easier to understand allows people to see how the department is seeking ways to implement better care for patients and their families.  

Feasibility and acceptability of family administration of delirium detection tools in the intensive care unit: A patient-oriented pilot study

Karla D. Krewulak PhD, Bonnie G. Sept, Henry T. Stelfox MD PhD, E.W. Ely MD MPH, 
Judy E. Davidson DNP RN, Zahinoor Ismail MD, Kirsten M. Fiest PhD

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