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Gurlavine Kidd
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Research
Latest papers
Home-based, virtually supported multimodal prehabilitation compared with usual care prior to major surgery: a multicentre, pragmatic pilot randomised trial.
BJA open · 2026
Prehabilitation in preparation for surgery.
BMJ medicine · 2026
Description and validation of the Postoperative Discharge Recovery State outcome: a patient-partnered population-based cohort study.
British journal of anaesthesia · 2025
Latest funding
- $765,001
STRIVE before surgery trial: a pragmatic multicenter randomized trial of Structured TRaining to Improve fitness in a Virtual Environment before surgery
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $100,000
The Canadian Prehabilitation Network Review: a living systematic review to support advanced knowledge synthesis informing prehabilitation design and evaluation
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $400,000
STRIVE before surgery trial: a pragmatic multicenter randomized trial of Structured TRaining to Improve fitness in a Virtual Environment before surgery
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
8 publications.
Home-based, virtually supported multimodal prehabilitation compared with usual care prior to major surgery: a multicentre, pragmatic pilot randomised trial.
McIsaac DI, Hallet J, Kidd G, Lee S, Taljaard M, Tandon P, Wijeysundera DN, Gillis C, STRIVE Trial Investigator Group
Prehabilitation in preparation for surgery.
McIsaac DI, Amado L, Kidd G, Wanczycki C, Boden I, Hladkowicz E, Gillis C
Description and validation of the Postoperative Discharge Recovery State outcome: a patient-partnered population-based cohort study.
Hladkowicz E, Kidd G, Flexman A, Garland A, Hallet J, Kobewka D, McGarr M, Talarico R, van Walraven C, Wijeysundera DN, Wong CL, McIsaac DI, NOTIFY Investigator Group, Canadian Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials Group
Relative efficacy of prehabilitation interventions and their components: systematic review with network and component network meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials.
McIsaac DI, Kidd G, Gillis C, Branje K, Al-Bayati M, Baxi A, Grudzinski AL, Boland L, Veroniki AA, Wolfe D, Hutton B
Adherence to prehabilitation in adult surgical patients: a systematic review, meta-analysis, meta-regression, and qualitative synthesis.
Berrio-Valencia MI, Al-Bayati M, Baxi A, Branje K, Chitiva-Martinez I, Hladkowicz E, Kidd G, Hutton B, Wolfe DM, Lalu M, Boet S, Gillis C, McIsaac DI, Canadian Prehabilitation Knowledge Network
"It's a stressful, trying time for the caretaker": an interpretive description qualitative study of postoperative transitions in care for older adults with frailty from the perspectives of informal caregivers.
Hladkowicz E, Auais M, Kidd G, McIsaac DI, Miller J
STRIVE pilot trial: a protocol for a multicentre pragmatic internal pilot randomised controlled trial of Structured TRaining to Improve fitness in a Virtual Environment (STRIVE) before surgery
McIsaac DI, Tandon P, Kidd G, Branje K, Hladkowicz E, Hallet J, Wijeysundera DN, Lee S, McNeely ML, Taljaard M
"I can't imagine having to do it on your own": a qualitative study on postoperative transitions in care from the perspectives of older adults with frailty.
Hladkowicz E, Auais M, Kidd G, McIsaac DI, Miller J
STRIVE before surgery trial: a pragmatic multicenter randomized trial of Structured TRaining to Improve fitness in a Virtual Environment before surgery
Principal investigators: McIsaac, Daniel I; Gillis, Chelsia A; Hallet, Julie; Kidd, Gurlavine D; Lee, Susan M; Mayson, Kelly V; Taljaard, Monica; Tandon, Puneeta; Wallace, Tom; Wijeysundera, Duminda N
Keywords: Exercise; Pragmatic Trials; Prehabilitation; Randomized Trials; Surgery
The Canadian Prehabilitation Network Review: a living systematic review to support advanced knowledge synthesis informing prehabilitation design and evaluation
Principal investigators: McIsaac, Daniel I; Boland, Laura S; Gillis, Chelsia A; Hutton, Brian E; Kidd, Gurlavine D; Martel, Guillaume; Veroniki, Areti Angeliki
Keywords: Exercise; Health Policy; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Network Review; Nutrition; Outcomes; Prehabilitation; Surgery; Systematic Review
STRIVE before surgery trial: a pragmatic multicenter randomized trial of Structured TRaining to Improve fitness in a Virtual Environment before surgery
Principal investigators: McIsaac, Daniel I; Gillis, Chelsia A; Hallet, Julie; Kidd, Gurlavine D; Lee, Susan M; Mayson, Kelly V; Taljaard, Monica; Tandon, Puneeta; Wallace, Tom; Wijeysundera, Duminda N
Keywords: Exercise; Pragmatic Trials; Prehabilitation; Randomized Trials; Surgery
Virtual, Innovative, postsurgical Care To Optimize Return home for older people with frailtY: the VICTORY randomized trial
Principal investigators: Aucoin, Sylvie D; Forster, Alan J; Kidd, Gurlavine D; Lalu, Manoj M; McIsaac, Daniel I
Keywords: Bayesian Methods; Frailty; Implementation Science; Innovative Clinical Trials; Patient Partners; Patient-Oriented Research; Registry Linked Trial; Surgery; Virtual Care
Virtual, Innovative, postsurgical Care To Optimize Return home for older people with frailtY: the VICTORY randomized trial
Principal investigators: Aucoin, Sylvie D; Forster, Alan J; Jacka, Michael J; Kidd, Gurlavine D; Lalu, Manoj M; Leitch, Jordan K; McGillion, Michael H; McIsaac, Daniel I; Thavorn, Kednapa
Keywords: Bayesian Methods; Frailty; Implementation Science; Innovative Clinical Trials; Patient Partners; Patient-Oriented Research; Registry Linked Trial; Surgery; Virtual Care
Non-hOme Transition rIsk Following surgerY (NOTIFY) study
Principal investigators: McIsaac, Daniel I; Flexman, Alana M; Garland, Allan; Hallet, Julie; Kidd, Gurlavine D; Kobewka, Daniel M; Van Walraven, Carl; Wijeysundera, Duminda N; Wong, Camilla L
Keywords: Geriatrics; Health Services Research; Outcomes Research; Risk Communication; Risk Prediction; Surgery
PREPARE for Cancer Surgery Trial: multimodal PReoperative Exercise to decrease PostoperAtive disability, cancer RecurrencE and mortality in older people with frailty
Principal investigators: McIsaac, Daniel I; Eskander, Antoine; Fergusson, Dean A; Gillis, Chelsia A; Khadaroo, Rachel; Kidd, Gurlavine D; Muscedere, John; Taljaard, Monica
Keywords: Cancer; Exercise; Frailty; Prehabilitation; Randomized Trials; Surgery
The Anesthesia for Lower limb revascularization to Optimize Functional OuTcomes (ALOFT) Trial: a pilot multicenter randomized trial
Principal investigators: McIsaac, Daniel I; Jerath, Angela; Kidd, Gurlavine D; Roberts, Derek J; Saha, Tarit; Taljaard, Monica; Wijeysundera, Duminda N
Keywords: Anesthesia; Barriers And Facilitators; Function; Patient Reported Outcomes; Peripheral Vascular Disease; Pilot Trial; Randomized Trial
STRIVE before surgery trial: a vanguard pragmatic multicenter randomized trial of Structured TRaining to Improve fitness in a Virtual Environment before surgery
Principal investigators: McIsaac, Daniel I; Gillis, Chelsia A; Hallet, Julie; Kidd, Gurlavine D; Mcneely, Margaret L; Taljaard, Monica; Tandon, Puneeta; Wijeysundera, Duminda N
Keywords: Exercise; Pragmatic Trials; Prehabilitation; Randomized Trials; Surgery
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Anesthesia
- Surgery
- School of Epidemiology and Public Health
- Medicine
- Anesthesiology
- Anesthesiology and Pain Management
- Human Nutrition
- Other
Co-authors at University of Ottawa, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Chelsia Gillis
Human Nutrition
5 shared papers, latest 2026
Julie Hallet
Surgery
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Monica Taljaard
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Brian Hutton
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Mohammad Auais
School of Rehabilitation
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Puneeta Tandon
Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Jordan Miller
Rehabilitation Therapy
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Areti-Angeliki Veroniki
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Manoj Lalu
Anesthesiology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Carl van Walraven
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Laura Boland
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Jessica Spence
Anesthesia
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Daniel Kobewka
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2025
James Paul
Anesthesia
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Ilun Yang
Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Emilie Belley-Cote
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Norman Buckley
Anesthesia
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Sylvain Boet
Anesthesiology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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