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Completed Projects

SEARCH Canada's sixth cohort commenced in April 2007 and was complete by the end of October 2008. Participants were expected to complete their local projects by June 2008, for presentation as part of an impact assessment workshop, being planned that month. Provincial projects were to be complete by June 2009.

SEARCH VI - Local Projects 

Mandy Bellows Alberta Health Services	How do health facilities plan, implement and evaluate the People Centered Care concept?
Trish Crick Alberta Health Services	Quality Performance Indicator Reporting to Surgeons: Is there Another Option?
Peter Drew Alberta Health Services	Moving stroke rehabilitation guidelines into clinical practice.
Jackie Egg Red Deer College	What factors contribute to quality of life for young adults who live in Long Term Care?
Angela Fulton Alberta Health Services	For clients who require chronic disease management, what is the evidence concerning the value of single point coordination of multiple program referrals compared with separate individual program referral?
Tracey Geyer Alberta Health Services	What are the indicators of staff readiness for organizational change?
Wendy Gillespie Alberta Health Services	Paediatric Admission Process: Creating the Balance Between Tertiary Care and Community Hospital Facilities
Charlene Hann Alberta Health Services	Strength is Not in the Numbers: The Influence of Social Support on Postpartum Depression
George Harris Alberta Health Services	What are the current best practices for conduct disorder within the adolescent population?
Glenda Hawthorne Alberta Health Services	Medication delivery systems.
Deena Hinshaw U of A Community Medicine Program	INTERMED: Assessing patient complexity in the inner city.
Yvonne Hoppins Alberta Health Services	Involving patients and families in enhancing patient safety.
Brad Jones Alberta Health Services	Determinants of effective collaboration between health care organizations.
Shelley MacGregor Alberta Health Services	Measuring the quality of continuing care standards.
Linda Mastronardi Alberta Health Services, Calgary EMS	How can The City of Calgary Emergency Medical Services use talent management strategies to identify and maximize the potential of its future managers and leaders?
Mark Moland Alberta Health Services	Towards early identification of children who may have an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Sonja Morrison Alberta Health Services	Communication with families of adult patients who are hospitalized.
Doug Norton Alberta Health Services	Formal mentoring programs in healthcare.
Saqib Shahab U of A Community Medicine Program	Finding value in the evaluation of public health syndromic surveillance systems from a policy perspective.
Yong Shi Alberta Health Services	What impact does physician pay-for-performance program have on the quality of health care in office-based chronic disease care?
Marcus Swift Alberta Health Services	Among middle aged (20-59 year old) males, are there established and comprehensive Suicide Prevention Initiatives that a) significantly reduce the rate of suicide and b) fit the context of Aspen RHA?
Wanda Tait Health Canada - First Nations and Inuit Health Branch	How can First Nations communities be engaged as partners in the preceptoring of nurses new to the community?
Todd Wolansky Alberta Health Services	Making Exercise Sticky: Long term maintenance of physical activity following cardiac rehabilitation.
Sabrina Wood Health Canada - First Nations and Inuit Health Branch	What is known about the use of videoconference technology in (Aboriginal) isolated remote/rural/ northern communities?

 

 SEARCH VI - Provincial Projects

 

Participants	Question
Tracey Geyer, Alberta Health Services Deena Hinshaw, U of A Community Medicine Program Todd Wolansky, Alberta Health Services Sabrina Wood, Health Canada - First Nations and Inuit Health Branch	Keys to Successful Collaboration: An exploration of factors that influence successful collaboration.
Wendy Gillespie, Alberta Health Services	Lessons Learned From the C.O.A.T. Integration Project
George Harris, Alberta Health Services Sonja Morrison, Alberta Health Services Saqib Shahab, U of A Community Medicine Program	Leveraging Technology to Support Collaboration in health care proposal
Mandy Bellows, Alberta Health Services Trish Crick, Alberta Health Services Mark Moland, Alberta Health Services	Patient and Family Centered Care in Primary Care Networks
Angela Fulton, Alberta Health Services Glenda Hawthorne, Alberta Health Services Yong Shi, Alberta Health Services Marcus Swift, Alberta Health Services	Patients' Experience of a Collaborative Health Care Team
Jackie Egg, Red Deer College Linda Mastronardi, Alberta Health Services, Calgary EMS Wanda Tait, Health Canada - First Nations and Inuit Health Branch	The Voice Behind the Glass: Perceptions of Facilitators who use High Fidelity Simulation for Clinical Training
Charlene Hann, Alberta Health Services Yvonne Hoppins, Alberta Health Services Shelley MacGregor, Alberta Health Services	Useful Elements of Discharge Planning: Consumer Perceptions