2022 APERSU End-User Meeting

The 6th APERSU End-User Meeting was held on October 13-14th, 2022 at Peter Lougheed Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. The recordings and slides are available in the menu below.

Day 1, October 13th, 2022

Speaker: Jeff Johnson, APERSU, University of Alberta

PROMs and CKD: Experience from the EMPATHY trial

From peak to peak: PROM implementation in community and outpatient rehabilitation

  • Speakers: Eileen Keogh and Laura Benard, Alberta Health Services
  • Recording
  • Slides

The association between patient-reported symptom complexity level and acute care utilization among cancer patients: A population-based study using a novel symptom complexity algorithm and observational data

Economic evaluation of wastewater surveillance

  • Speaker: Jiabi Wen, PhD Candidate, University of Alberta
  • Recording

Unmet expectations: Can a customized decision aid help improve the quality of total knee replacement decisions

  • Speaker: Ademola Itiola, PhD Candidate, University of Alberta
  • Recording

Health-related quality of life in acute stroke: results from the AcT trial

  • Speaker: Tolulope Sajobi, University of Calgary
  • Recording

EQ-5D-Y-3L results from Canadian school studies

UCAN CANDU: Preliminary results

The 5 Ws of patient-reported outcome and experience measures in pediatric care in Alberta

  • Speakers: Maria Santana and Erin McCabe, University of Calgary
  • Recording
  • Slides

Entering the child’s mind: Challenges and potential solutions in valuing youth health in Canada

Measuring and valuing health in younger populations: EQ-5D-Y and beyond

The Australian paediatric multi-instrument comparison (P-MIC) study: psychometric performance of the EQ-5D-Y-3L, EQ-5D-Y-5L and PedsQL

EuroQol International Working Group

  • Speaker: Nancy Devlin, University of Melbourne
  • Recording
Day 2, October 14th, 2022

Topics:

  • Electronic capture of PROMs in PCNs
  • PROMs applications and use in decision-making
  • Leveraging PROMs in the medical home and patient-centered care

Speakers: APERSU PCN Working Group

  • Allison Soprovich, APERSU, University of Alberta
  • Krista Brower, EOPCN
  • Margo Schmitt-Boshnick, Red Deer PCN
  • Al-Bakir Ali, EOPCN
  • Michel Haener, Grande Prairie and Big Horn PCN
  • Recording
    Slides

Speakers: APERSU PCN Working Group

  • Allison Soprovich, APERSU, University of Alberta
  • Krista Brower, EOPCN
  • Margo Schmitt-Boshnick, Red Deer PCN
  • Al-Bakir Ali, EOPCN
  • Michel Haener, Grande Prairie and Big Horn PCN

Recording

Effect of compression therapies on venous ulcers healing in primary health services: randomized clinical trial

  • Speaker: Ana Furhmann, PhD Candidate, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
  • Recording

EQ-5D use in evaluating a home health monitoring project

  • Speaker: Shelby Corley, Three Hive Consulting
  • Recording

How well does the EQ-5D measure and value health for Indigenous people?

  • Speaker: Lilla Roy, PhD Candidate, University of Alberta
  • Recording

Health-related quality of life for home care clients in Edmonton, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Understanding patient experiences before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A quasi-experimental comparison of in-person and virtual cancer care

Post COVID-19 PROMs and PREMs opportunities (HQCA)

APERSU Annual Report 2022

Click here to download the APERSU Annual Report 2022 for an update on APERSU activities in the past year.

Online Forum 2022

The Use of PROMs in Health Systems: 3 implementation stories
This APERSU Virtual Symposium was held February 8, 2022. Three real-world PROMs implementation stories were highlighted in three clinical settings: primary care, cancer, and hip and knee arthroplasty. Please find the links to the presentations below:

APERSU Annual Report 2021

Click here to download the APERSU Annual Report 2021 for an update on APERSU activities in the past year.

Online Forums 2020 / 2021

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the APERSU Annual Meeting was not held in 2020. In lieu, a series of online forums on PROM use in two clinical settings were held.

Emerging Topics on PROMs in Primary Care
This meeting held on April 14, 2021, brought together PROMs end-users in Alberta and Quebec for routine outcome measurement and quality improvement in primary care.

Emerging Topics on PROMs in Osteoarthritis and Arthroplasty
This meeting held on November 25, 2020, brought together osteoarthritis and hip and knee arthroplasty PROMs experts from across Canada.

Annual Meeting 2019

The 5th Annual End-User Meeting was held October 17-18, 2019, at the Coast Canmore Hotel and Conference Centre, Canmore, AB.
  • Meeting Proceedings
  • APERSU Overview and Update (Jeff Johnson)
  • Keynote Talk: How do patient-reported outcome measures data stimulate health care improvement? (Joanne Greenhalgh)
  • Integrating Digital Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) into Standard Ambulatory Care Processes Provinicially: Exploring the outcomes (Linda Watson)
  • Application and Utility of PROMs in the Calgary Epilepsy Program (CEP) database, a large hospital-based registry of epilepsy patients (Kevin Perera)
  • Launching into Spread and Scale: Implementing the EQ-5D-5L in Community Rehabilitation in Alberta Health Services (Katie Churchill and Lisa Warner)
  • The use of PROMs data in Primary Care Settings in Alberta – A Panel Discussion (PCN Working Group)
  • The Discriminative Validity of the EQ-5D-5L Pain/Discomfort Dimension in Type 2 Diabetes (Kai Kao)
  • An overview and update on APERSU’s work on Minimally Important Difference (MID) (Jennifer Jin)
  • Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) – PROMs Update (Nicole De Guia)
  • Pan-Canadian implementation of Patient Reported Outcomes at CPAC: Opportunities, Challenges and Lessons Learned (Deborah Dudgeon)
  • The Future of PROMs data and Surveying at the HQCA (Markus Lahtinen)
  • Leveraging routinely collected PROMs data for policy and economic analysis – A Panel Discussion
  • Annual Meeting 2018

    The 4th Annual APERSU End-user Meeting was held on October 11-12, 2018, at the Varscona Hotel, in Edmonton, Alberta

    Annual Meeting 2017

    The 3rd Annual APERSU End-user Meeting was held on November 15-16, 2017, at the Coast Canmore Hotel and Conference Centre, in Canmore, Alberta

    Annual Meeting 2016

    2nd APERSU End-user Meeting, November 9-10, 2016, Matrix Hotel, Edmonton, AB

    Annual Meeting 2015

    1st APERSU End-user Meeting, October 20 – 21, 2015, Coast Canmore Hotel and Conference Centre, Canmore, AB