Research Report May 2008

Special Events / Notable Opportunities and Happenings

• Best Oral Paper (Group C) Ontario Provincial Conference on Palliative and End-of-Life Care. Denise Marshall, Doris Howell, Kevin Brazil, Michelle Howard, Alan Tanaguchi. Enhancing Family Physician Capacity to Deliver Quality Palliative Home Care: The Niagara West End-of-Life Shared Care Model.

• Research in the news: Congratulations to Michelle Howard who received coverage in the Boston Globe about her study on patient satisfaction with different models of primary health care delivery.

  http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/blog/2007/09/hold_til_3_pm_w.html

Publications:
Wayne K. deRuiter, Guy Faulkner, John Cairney, and Scott Veldhuizen. Characteristics of Physically Active Smokers and Implications for Harm Reduction Am J Public Health 2008 98: 925-931, 10.2105/AJPH.2007.120469.

Brent E. Faught, John Cairney, John Hay, Scott Veldhuizen, Cheryl Missiuna, Cristina A. Spironello.Screening for motor coordination challenges in children using teacher ratings of physical ability and activity. Human Movement Science 2008 27(2): 177-189. Karen A. Urbanoski, John Cairney, Diego G. Bassani, and Brian R. Rush. Perceived Unmet Need for Mental Health Care for Canadians With Co-occurring Mental and Substance Use Disorders. Psychiatr Serv 2008 59: 283-289

Funding Awarded:
Moore A (PI), White J, McAiney C, McCarthy L, Chan D. Feasibility of collaborative clinical model to improve care of the elderly at Stonechurch Family Health Center, McMaster University. DFM Pilot Project Funding. $5,000.

Lee J (PI), Alfieri M, Lee L. Exploring the Development of a Distributed, Community-Based, Inter-professional Family Medicine Residency Program. DFM Pilot Project Funding. $4,650.

Chan D (PI), Moore A, Pauw G, MacDonald Werstuck M. Patient uptake and satisfaction on dietitian support using MyOSCAR for adolescent – a randomized controlled trial. DFM Pilot Project Funding. $5,000.

Shaw E (PI), Taniguchi A, Marshall D, Brazil K, Eva K, Winemaker S. Development of a palliative care educational intervention and evaluation method for family medicine residents. DFM Pilot Project Funding. $5,000.

Dolovich L, Shea B, Leslie W, Holbrook A, Levine M, Thabane L. Canadian-Based Interventions to Optimize Drug Therapy in Chronic Disease. (1 year, $99,977) CIHR Letter of Intent: 2008-2010 ONTARIO STROKE SYSTEM – HEALTH PROMOTION & PRIMARY PREVENTION.