Annual Meetings

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)
  • Red Deer PCN (Margo Schmitt-Boshnick)
  • Palliser PCN (Shea Wilks)
  • Grande Prairie PCN (Michel Haener)
  • Edmonton Oliver PCN (Krista Brower)
• 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
  • PROMs in Connect Care (Stafford Dean)
  • CIHI perspectives on the use of patient-reported data at a national level (Sunita Karmakar-Hore)
  • Routinely collected PROMs in economic evaluation (Jeff Round)

Annual Meeting 2018

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

• Meeting Proceedings
• PCN Panel Discussion

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

• Meeting Proceedings
• Overview and Update on APERSU (Jeff Johnson)
• More than a tick-box exercise: Leveraging modern technology to realise the potential of PROs in clinical practice (Chris Gibbons)
• Progress and regress in the English NHS PROMs programme: what can be learned? (David Parkin)
• Routine PROMs Measurement in Health System – CIHI Update (Ellis Chow)
• Implementing PROMS & PREMS in CancerControl Alberta (Andrea Deiure & Olga Maciejewski)
• EQ-5D variations in a large, hospital-based registry of epilepsy patients (Colin Bruce Josephson)
• Relationship of Deprivation with Health-related Quality of life (HRQOL) in General Population (Tahmid Kashem)
• Discriminative Validity of the EQ-5D-5L and SF-12 in Older Adults with Arthritis (Andrews Tawiah)
• A comparison of cross-sectional psychometric properties of EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L among patients who received hip and knee replacements (Jennifer Jin & Fatima Al Sayah)
• EQ-5D Measurement at the HQCA (Roland Simon)
• Validating the EQ5DY in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) in UCAN CANDU (Deborah Marshall)
• Bringing Patients Back to the PROM (Nick Bansback)

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