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Karen Benzies

ResearcherPediatricsUniversity of Calgary

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Karen Benzies

Researcher

Pediatrics

Health Sciences

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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11 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2021.
Supervisor on 4 trainee awards (4 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Collaborative Quality Improvement Healthcare Cost Late Preterm Length Of Hospital Stay Moderate Preterm Newborn Nutrition Quality Improvement

Latest papers

Editorial: Challenges, opportunities & outcomes of patient-oriented research in learning health systems.
Frontiers in health services · 2026
Correction: Social enterprise as a strategy to advance patient-oriented health services innovation: learning from the Alberta Family Integrated Care model.
Frontiers in health services · 2025 · senior author
Social enterprise as a strategy to advance patient-oriented health services innovation: learning from the Alberta Family Integrated Care model.
Frontiers in health services · 2025 · senior author

All 44 publications

Latest funding

Uncovering the roots: why family centered care quality improvement initiatives can flounder
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$2,000
Rapid Adaptation of Alberta Family Integrated Care: Scaling A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Care Model to Broader Patient Populations
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$2,000
Integrating Pluralism into Transdisciplinary Scholarship: Harmonizing Collaboration Across Diverse Disciplines Aiming to Solve Complex Societal Challenges
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$118,800

All 13 grants and awards

44 publications.

Editorial: Challenges, opportunities & outcomes of patient-oriented research in learning health systems.

Manhas KP, Benzies K, Santana M, Wasylak T

Frontiers in health services2026

DOI: 10.3389/frhs.2026.1789698 PMID: 41822548

Correction: Social enterprise as a strategy to advance patient-oriented health services innovation: learning from the Alberta Family Integrated Care model.

Shahid A, Graham K, Benzies K

Frontiers in health services2025Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/frhs.2025.1758571 PMID: 41551059

Social enterprise as a strategy to advance patient-oriented health services innovation: learning from the Alberta Family Integrated Care model.

Shahid A, Graham K, Benzies K

Frontiers in health services2025Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/frhs.2025.1638587 PMID: 41113809

Accelerating the impact of family-centered care interventions in adult ICUs: Learning from critical care literature across neonatal and adult populations.

Benzies K, Shahid A

Intensive & critical care nursing2025First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2025.104067 PMID: 40349437

Unplanned Extubations Requiring Reintubation in Pediatric Critical Care: An Epidemiological Study.

Wollny K, McNeil D, Moss SJ, Sajobi T, Parsons SJ, Benzies K, Metcalfe A

Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies2023

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000003167 PMID: 37026721

Creating Value Through Learning Health Systems: The Alberta Strategic Clinical Network Experience.

Wasylak T, Benzies K, McNeil D, Zanoni P, Osiowy K, Mullie T, Chuck A

Nursing administration quarterly2023

DOI: 10.1097/naq.0000000000000552 PMID: 36469371

Quality improvement interventions to prevent unplanned extubations in pediatric critical care: a systematic review.

Wollny K, Cui S, McNeil D, Benzies K, Parsons SJ, Sajobi T, Metcalfe A

Systematic reviews2022

DOI: 10.1186/s13643-022-02119-8 PMID: 36461126

A qualitative investigation of facilitators and barriers to accessing COVID-19 vaccines among Racialized and Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

Aylsworth L, Manca T, Dubé È, Labbé F, Driedger SM, Benzies K, MacDonald N, Graham J, MacDonald SE, Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) investigators

Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics2022

DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2022.2129827 PMID: 36218335

Fathers' Experiences in Alberta Family Integrated Care: A Qualitative Study.

Shafey A, Benzies K, Amin R, Stelfox HT, Shah V

The Journal of perinatal & neonatal nursing2022

DOI: 10.1097/jpn.0000000000000684 PMID: 36288445

COVID-19 vaccine uptake and intention during pregnancy in Canada.

Reifferscheid L, Marfo E, Assi A, Dubé E, MacDonald NE, Meyer SB, Bettinger JA, Driedger SM, Robinson J, Sadarangani M, Wilson SE, Benzies K, Lemaire-Paquette S, Gagneur A, MacDonald SE

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2022

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-022-00641-9 PMID: 35476258

Uncovering the roots: why family centered care quality improvement initiatives can flounder

SupervisorCIHR2025Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Shahid, Anmol

Keywords: Health Workforce; Integrated Care; Resource Constraint

$2,000

Rapid Adaptation of Alberta Family Integrated Care: Scaling A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Care Model to Broader Patient Populations

SupervisorCIHR2025Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Shahid, Anmol

Keywords: Health System Performance; Ics Travel Awards; Knowledge Translation & Exchange; Patient And Public Engagement

$2,000

Integrating Pluralism into Transdisciplinary Scholarship: Harmonizing Collaboration Across Diverse Disciplines Aiming to Solve Complex Societal Challenges

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bharwani, Aleem

$118,800

Impact training: experiential learning toolkits to increase social sciences, humanities and arts (SSHA) capacity for research and innovation in the social sector

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Partnerships Grants Training Initiatives

Keywords: research talent; skills; innovation; partnerships; collaboration; experiential learning; community engagement; social innovation; capacity building; PhD outcomes; Social Sciences; Humanities

$460,000

Alberta (AB) Collaborative Quality Improvement Strategies to Improve Outcomes of Preterm Infants 32 - 36 Weeks' Gestation: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial (ABC-QI Trial)

Principal investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Abou Mehrem, Ayman I; Alshaikh, Belal N; Aziz, Khalid; Benzies, Karen M; Johnson, David W; Shah, Prakeshkumar; Toye, Jennifer M

Keywords: Collaborative Quality Improvement; Healthcare Cost; Late Preterm; Length Of Hospital Stay; Moderate Preterm; Newborn; Nutrition; Quality Improvement; Respiratory Support; Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial

$765,000

Co-development and validation of a measurement tool to examine the parent experience of patient- and family-centered care in the neonatal intensive care unit

SupervisorCIHR2021Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Wilson, Jacqueline M

Keywords: Integrated Knowledge Translation; Measurement Tool Development; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Newborns; Parents; Patient- And Family-Centered Care; Patient-Oriented Research; Patient-Reported Experience Measures; Preterm Infants; Quality Improvement

$105,000

ACCELERATE: Partnering with ICU patients and family caregivers toward early transitions in care

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Stelfox, Henry T; Fiest, Kirsten M; Foster, Nadine K; Parsons Leigh, Jeanna J; Sept, Bonnie G

Keywords: Critical Care Medicine; Health Services Research; Intensive Care; Knowledge Translation; Patient Centered Care; Transitions In Care

$355,725

Vaccination in a pandemic: The impact on routine vaccinations and future COVID-19 vaccine acceptance

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Social Policy and Public Health Responses

Principal investigators: MacDonald, Shannon E; Tunis, Matthew C; Gagneur, Arnaud A

Keywords: Covid-19; Covid-19 Prevention; Health Policy; Infection Prevention And Control; National Observational Study; Pandemic; Public Health Communication; Public Health Response; Public Perceptions; Vaccination/Immunization

$334,908

Co-designing a Patient and Family Caregiver-Oriented Transitions in Care Bundle

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Team Grant: TiC - Stream 1 - PHSI solutions for transitions in care gaps

Principal investigators: Fiest, Kirsten M; Farrier, Christian E; Foster, Nadine K; Kupsch, Shelly; Niven, Daniel; Oxland, Peter R; Parsons Leigh, Jeanna J; Sept, Bonnie G; Stelfox, Henry T; Straus, Sharon E

Keywords: Clinical Trial; Critical Care Medicine; Family Caregiver Engagement; Intensive Care Unit; Knowledge Translation; Mixed Methods; Patient Centered Care; Transitions In Care

$958,006

The social organization of Family Integrated Care (FICare): Mapping coordination of care in NICUs for effective scale and spread

SupervisorCIHR2018Health System Impact Fellowships - PostDoc Western Canada 2 year

Principal investigators: Ringham, Catherine L

Keywords: Family Integrated Care; Fathers; Health Care Providers; Health Systems; Implementation Science; Insitutional Ethnography; Knowledge Translation; Mothers; Neonatal Intensive Care; Preterm Infant

$108,500

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Karen Benzies

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Editorial: Challenges, opportunities & outcomes of patient-oriented research in learning health systems.

Correction: Social enterprise as a strategy to advance patient-oriented health services innovation: learning from the Alberta Family Integrated Care model.

Social enterprise as a strategy to advance patient-oriented health services innovation: learning from the Alberta Family Integrated Care model.

Accelerating the impact of family-centered care interventions in adult ICUs: Learning from critical care literature across neonatal and adult populations.

Unplanned Extubations Requiring Reintubation in Pediatric Critical Care: An Epidemiological Study.

Creating Value Through Learning Health Systems: The Alberta Strategic Clinical Network Experience.

Quality improvement interventions to prevent unplanned extubations in pediatric critical care: a systematic review.

A qualitative investigation of facilitators and barriers to accessing COVID-19 vaccines among Racialized and Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

Fathers' Experiences in Alberta Family Integrated Care: A Qualitative Study.

COVID-19 vaccine uptake and intention during pregnancy in Canada.

Integrating Pluralism into Transdisciplinary Scholarship: Harmonizing Collaboration Across Diverse Disciplines Aiming to Solve Complex Societal Challenges

Impact training: experiential learning toolkits to increase social sciences, humanities and arts (SSHA) capacity for research and innovation in the social sector

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