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Alain Giguère

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Clinical ProfessorUniversité Laval

Alain Giguère

Clinical Professor

Faculty of Medicine

Université Laval

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

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Clinical faculty often co-supervise; many graduate programs need a core faculty member as the main supervisor.
55 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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189

Publications

5,334

Citations

272

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Research

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Latest papers

Comparing traditional and AI-enhanced strategies for developing patient decision aids: a multiple case study.
BMJ evidence-based medicine · 2026 · first author
Exploring the potential of decision aids to support decision-making about healthy aging: A qualitative descriptive study using the theoretical domains framework.
Patient education and counseling · 2026 · senior author
Engaging Older Adults With Neurocognitive Disorders in Digital Health Technologies: Scoping Review.
JMIR human factors · 2026

All 189 publications

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Comparing traditional and AI-enhanced strategies for developing patient decision aids: a multiple case study.

Giguere A, Auclair-Rochon D, Robin M, Augustine L, Ayre J, McCaffery K

BMJ evidence-based medicine20262 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjebm-2025-113675 PMID: 41125298

Exploring the potential of decision aids to support decision-making about healthy aging: A qualitative descriptive study using the theoretical domains framework.

Montaigne E, Côté I, Dallaire C, Durand PJ, Gagnon MP, Giroux D, Hudon C, Kröger E, Légaré F, Singamalum S, Sirois MJ, Tourigny A, Giguere A

Patient education and counseling20261 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2025.109409 PMID: 41237440

Engaging Older Adults With Neurocognitive Disorders in Digital Health Technologies: Scoping Review.

Da SMAR, Sasseville M, Hardy MS, Beogo I, Gogovor A, Amil S, Yameogo AR, Naye F, Yousefi F, Bergeron F, Giguère A, LeBlanc A, Plaisimond J, Rivard-Lacroix C, Gagnon MP, Cachinho C

JMIR human factors20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.2196/70157 PMID: 42467818

Self-Report Measures of Engagement with Digital Health Interventions Among Older Adults: A Scoping Review (Preprint)

Sié Mathieu Aymar Romaric Da, James Plaisimond, Chloé Cachinho, Giti Khalaj, Samira Amil, Marie-Violaine Ponte, Achille Roghemrazangba Yameogo, Mohamed Amine Bouchlaghem, Anik M C Giguere, Florian Naye, Holly O. Witteman, Maxime Sasseville, Marie‐Pierre Gagnon

2026

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.111890

A Characterization of Older Adults in Primary Care in Three Canadian Provinces.

Whate A, Elliott J, Mallinson S, Giguere A, Sims-Gould J, Rockwood K, Stolee P

Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1017/s0714980825100500 PMID: 41536118

Interactive, Personalized Patient Decision Aid for COVID-19 Vaccination in Canada: User-Centered Design Approach

Etienne D, Archambault PM, Bogoch II, Chambers CT, Chittle AD, Demers J, Driedger SM, Dubé È, Gagnon M-P, Gavaruzzi T

JMIR Human Factors2026Open Access

DOI: 10.2196/86283

Factors Influencing the Adoption of a Patient Decision Aid Development Platform: A Qualitative Study.

Bélanger J, Bonner C, Bravo P, Dionne É, Hastings K, Légaré F, Prévost K, Selby K, Stacey D, Straus SE, Thombs BD, Giguere A

MDM policy & practice2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/23814683251409185 PMID: 41641364

An Online Application to Explain Community Immunity with Personalized Avatars: A Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)

Hina Hakim, Julie A. Bettinger, Christine T. Chambers, S. Michelle Driedger, Eve Dubé, Teresa Gavaruzzi, Anik M C Giguere, Noah M Ivers, Anne‐Sophie Julien, Shannon E MacDonald, Magniol Noubi, Rita Orji, Élizabeth Parent, Beate Sander, Aaron M. Scherer, Kumanan Wilson, Daniel Reinharz, Holly O. Witteman

2026Open Access

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.95635

Protocol for the development of a core outcome set for the evaluation of shared decision-making interventions in healthcare

Christin Hoffmann, Joanne E Butterworth, Florian Naye, Maureen P. Smith, Taona Nyamapfene, Samuel Lawday, KERRY N. L. AVERY, Hilary Bekker, Paulina Bravo, Simon Décary, Adrian Edwards, Glyn Jones Elwyn, Ellen G. Engelhardt, Juan Víctor Ariel Franco, Mirjam Marjolein Garvelink, Anik M C Giguere, Martin Christian Härter, Tammy Hoffmann, Simone Maria Kienlin, Kirsten McCaffery, Janneke Noordman, Karina Olling, Lilisbeth Perestelo‐Pérez, Arwen H. Pieterse, Fueloep Scheibler, Karen Sepucha, Dawn Stacey, Dirk T. Ubbink, Katherene Valentine, Robert Joseph Volk, et al. (47 authors)

medRxiv20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.64898/2025.11.28.25341200

Engaging Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment in Digital Health Technologies: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

Da SMAR, Sasseville M, Hardy MS, Beogo I, Gogovor A, Amil S, Yameogo AR, Bergeron F, Giguere A, LeBlanc A, Plaisimond J, Rivard-Lacroix C, Gagnon MP

JMIR research protocols20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.2196/65515 PMID: 40460431

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Alain Giguère

Research

Latest papers

Comparing traditional and AI-enhanced strategies for developing patient decision aids: a multiple case study.

Exploring the potential of decision aids to support decision-making about healthy aging: A qualitative descriptive study using the theoretical domains framework.

Engaging Older Adults With Neurocognitive Disorders in Digital Health Technologies: Scoping Review.

Self-Report Measures of Engagement with Digital Health Interventions Among Older Adults: A Scoping Review (Preprint)

A Characterization of Older Adults in Primary Care in Three Canadian Provinces.

Interactive, Personalized Patient Decision Aid for COVID-19 Vaccination in Canada: User-Centered Design Approach

Factors Influencing the Adoption of a Patient Decision Aid Development Platform: A Qualitative Study.

An Online Application to Explain Community Immunity with Personalized Avatars: A Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)

Protocol for the development of a core outcome set for the evaluation of shared decision-making interventions in healthcare

Engaging Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment in Digital Health Technologies: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

Frequent collaborators

Anik Giguère

France Légaré

Holly Witteman

Marie-Pierre Gagnon

Edeltraut Kroger

Dawn Stacey

Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi

Samira Rahimi

Anne Bourbonnais

Philippe Voyer

Noah Ivers

Dominique Giroux

Annie Leblanc

Heather Colquhoun

François Rousseau

Maxime Sasseville

Isabelle Vedel

Landis Hare

Valérie Poulin

Pierre Durand

Karine Latulippe