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Fiona Webster

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ProfessorSocial & Behavioural Health Sciences DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Fiona Webster

Professor

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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1 publication in the last five years, latest in 2023.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (7 CIHR), most recently in 2018.

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Publications

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Research

Ethnography Multidiscipinary Care Pain Management Primary Care Qualitative Methods Chronic Pain Patient Standpoint Patient-Centred Care

Latest papers

Chronic Struggle: An Institutional Ethnography of Chronic Pain and Marginalization
Journal of Pain · 2023 · first author
Experiences of family of individuals in a locked in, minimally conscious state, or vegetative state with the health care system.
Brain injury · 2021
An Exploratory Analysis of Spine Patients' Preoperative Concerns and Decision-making Process: Does What Surgeons Say Matter?
Spine · 2020

All 54 publications

Latest funding

Testing Healthcare innovations in integrated Networks for Chronic pain: Evaluation of the Implementation of ECHO Chronic Pain in Canada (THiiNC-ECHO)
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$1,909,639
Power over Pain Portal: A stepped-care virtual solution to deliver early intervention to Canadian youth with chronic pain
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$149,999
Evaluation of Virtual Care for Rapid Access Clinic - Low Back Pain: Patient and Healthcare Provider Perspectives Across Ontario
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator

All 18 grants and awards

54 publications.

Chronic Struggle: An Institutional Ethnography of Chronic Pain and Marginalization

Webster F, Connoy L, Sud A, Rice K, Katz J, Pinto AD, Upshur R, Dale C

Journal of Pain202327 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2022.10.004

Experiences of family of individuals in a locked in, minimally conscious state, or vegetative state with the health care system.

Munce SEP, Webster F, Christian J, Gonzalez-Lara LE, Owen AM, Weijer C

Brain injury2021

DOI: 10.1080/02699052.2020.1858494 PMID: 33382636

An Exploratory Analysis of Spine Patients' Preoperative Concerns and Decision-making Process: Does What Surgeons Say Matter?

Matthies N, Keshen S, Lewis S, Webster F, Perruccio AV, Rampersaud YR

Spine2020

DOI: 10.1097/brs.0000000000003456 PMID: 32675614

Health care providers' experiences and perceptions participating in a chronic pain telementoring education program: A qualitative study.

Zhao J, Salemohamed N, Stinson J, Carlin L, Seto E, Webster F, Furlan AD

Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur2020

DOI: 10.1080/24740527.2020.1749003 PMID: 33987490

Using Twitter to recruit participants for health research: An example from a caregiving study.

Wasilewski MB, Stinson JN, Webster F, Cameron JI

Health informatics journal2019

DOI: 10.1177/1460458218775158 PMID: 29843545

Physical Activity Intervention in Primary Care and Rheumatology for the Management of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Review.

Waugh E, King L, Gakhal N, Hawker G, Webster F, White D

Arthritis care & research2019

DOI: 10.1002/acr.23622 PMID: 29920972

Changing the Conversation: Diabetes Management in Adults With Severe Mental Illnesses and Type 2 Diabetes.

Knyahnytska Y, Williams C, Dale C, Webster F

Canadian journal of diabetes2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjd.2018.02.001 PMID: 29861331

Disruption or innovation? A qualitative descriptive study on the use of electronic patient-physician communication in patients with advanced cancer.

Voruganti T, Husain A, Grunfeld E, Webster F

Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s00520-018-4103-7 PMID: 29502156

A realist evaluation of value-based care delivery in home care: The influence of actors, autonomy and accountability.

Dainty KN, Golden BR, Hannam R, Webster F, Browne G, Mittmann N, Stern A, Zwarenstein M

Social science & medicine (1982)2018

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.04.006 PMID: 29727779

Medical Trainees' Experiences of Treating People With Chronic Pain: A Lost Opportunity for Medical Education.

Rice K, Ryu JE, Whitehead C, Katz J, Webster F

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000002053 PMID: 29140917

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Fiona Webster

Research

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Chronic Struggle: An Institutional Ethnography of Chronic Pain and Marginalization

Experiences of family of individuals in a locked in, minimally conscious state, or vegetative state with the health care system.

An Exploratory Analysis of Spine Patients' Preoperative Concerns and Decision-making Process: Does What Surgeons Say Matter?

Health care providers' experiences and perceptions participating in a chronic pain telementoring education program: A qualitative study.

Using Twitter to recruit participants for health research: An example from a caregiving study.

Physical Activity Intervention in Primary Care and Rheumatology for the Management of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Review.

Changing the Conversation: Diabetes Management in Adults With Severe Mental Illnesses and Type 2 Diabetes.

Disruption or innovation? A qualitative descriptive study on the use of electronic patient-physician communication in patients with advanced cancer.

A realist evaluation of value-based care delivery in home care: The influence of actors, autonomy and accountability.

Medical Trainees' Experiences of Treating People With Chronic Pain: A Lost Opportunity for Medical Education.

Frequent collaborators

Joel Katz

Paul Krueger

Onil Bhattacharyya

Merrick Zwarenstein

Fiona Webster

Gary Naglie

Wendy Levinson

Lynn Wilson

Nancy Baxter

Gillian Hawker

Ross Upshur

Leahora Rotteau

Tulin Cil

Ayelet Kuper

Craig Dale

Michael Schull

Elizabeth Mansfield

Charles Weijer

Eva Grunfeld

Louise Rose

Vicky Stergiopoulos

Vicky Stergiopoulos

Ori Rotstein

Kathleen Rice

Mark Dobrow

Samir Sinha

Kaveh Shojania

Souraya Sidani

Maria Mylopoulos

Amna Husain

Emily Seto

Jill Tinmouth

Linda Rabeneck

Samir Sinha

Robin Urquhart

Deborah Cook

Emil Schemitsch

Tania Cellucci

Lisa Carlesso

Alan Taniguchi