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Shirley Bush
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Latest papers
Risk factors for delirium in adult patients receiving specialist palliative care: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Palliative medicine · 2022
Latest funding
- $655,157
Advancing the Care Experience in PAlliative care patient Transitions from hospital to Home (ACE-PATH): Co-designing an intervention to address the needs of patients and family caregivers and testing the intervention's acceptability and feasibility using an implementation study
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $149,742
Developing evidence-informed, regionally contextualized policy options to increase access and use of palliative care for people with heart failure in Ontario
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $100,000
Understanding the landscape of palliative care needs of people with heart failure in Ontario to improve future care delivery
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
1 publications.
Risk factors for delirium in adult patients receiving specialist palliative care: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Featherstone I, Sheldon T, Johnson M, Woodhouse R, Boland JW, Hosie A, Lawlor P, Russell G, Bush S, Siddiqi N
Advancing the Care Experience in PAlliative care patient Transitions from hospital to Home (ACE-PATH): Co-designing an intervention to address the needs of patients and family caregivers and testing the intervention's acceptability and feasibility using an implementation study
Principal investigators: Isenberg, Sarina R; Fitzgibbon, Edward J; Gilbert, Nathalie; Kornberg, Mona N; Rice, Jill L
Keywords: Care Transitions; Co-Design; Implementation Science; Interdisciplinary; Mixed Methods; Palliative And End-Of-Life Care; Patient- And Caregiver-Centered; Qualitative Methods
Developing evidence-informed, regionally contextualized policy options to increase access and use of palliative care for people with heart failure in Ontario
Principal investigators: Quinn, Kieran L; Razak, Fahad; Isenberg, Sarina R
Keywords: Care Needs; Health Services Research; Heart Failure; Palliative Care; Quality Of Life
Understanding the landscape of palliative care needs of people with heart failure in Ontario to improve future care delivery
Principal investigators: Quinn, Kieran L; Isenberg, Sarina R
Keywords: Care Needs; Health Services Research; Heart Failure; Palliative Care; Quality Of Life
Evaluating palliative and end-of-life care for Canadians living with schizophrenia
Principal investigators: Tanuseputro, Peter; Fiedorowicz, Jess G
Keywords: End-Of-Life Care; Health Services Utilization; Palliative Care; Place Of Death; Psychiatry; Schizophrenia
Improving access to specialized care for patients with frailty through eConsult
Principal investigators: Liddy, Clare E; Jarrett, Pamela; Vedel, Isabelle
Keywords: Access To Care; Aging; Dementia; Digital Health; Econsult; Equity; Frailty; Long Term Care; Primary Care; Specialist Services
Effects of dexmedetomidine in patients with agitated delirium in palliative care: an open-label phase 1/2 proof-of-concept, feasibility, and dose-finding clinical trial
Principal investigators: Downar, James; Kanji, Salmaan; Lascelle, Debi; Lawlor, Peter G; Parsons, Henrique A
Keywords: Agitated Delirium; Dexmedetomidine; Palliative Care; Phase I/Ii Clinical Trial; Qualitative Investigation; Rousable Sedation
Evaluating the palliative and end-of-life care of older Canadians living and dying with dementia
Principal investigators: Tanuseputro, Peter; Hsu, Amy T
Keywords: Clinical Prediction Tools; Dementia; End Of Life; Health Services Utilization; Healthcare Costs; Homecare; Long-Term Care; Palliative Care; Place Of Death
A Synthesis Of Instruments And Approaches To Evaluate Palliative Care Related Competencies
Principal investigators: Pereira, Jose L; Lapointe, Bernard J
Keywords: Competencies; Continuing Professional Development; Education; Hospice; Knowledge To Action Cycle; Knowledge Tools; Knowledge Translation; Palliative Care; Skills; Synthesis
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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