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
- 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