Research Canada

Team-Based Outpatient Rheumatology Care: A Scoping Review of Terminology, Team Composition, and Impact on Advancing the Quintuple Aim

Objectives Team-based models of rheumatology care, in which rheumatologists and interdisciplinary healthcare professionals (IHPs) collaborate in care delivery, are increasingly recognized to improve outcomes across all domains of the Quintuple Aim (population health, patient expe...

Moving Equity into Practice: Evaluation of an Online Asynchronous Continuing Medical Education Program for Rheumatology Care

Objectives Persistent health inequities exist in the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of rheumatologic diseases among at-risk populations in Canada. Prior research identified barriers and facilitators experienced by at-risk populations in Canada when accessing rheumatology care...

Exploring Decisional Factors to Include Approaches in a Patient Decision Aid for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Symptom Management

Objectives Youth with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) experience physical and mental health symptoms that negatively impact their participation in daily life activities. The JIA Option Map is a web-based patient decision aid (PDA) created to facilitate decision-making for JIA...

Performance of the 2025 ASAS-Spartan Revised Classification Criteria for Axial Spondyloarthritis in a Canadian Multicenter Inception Cohort with Psoriasis, Uveitis, or Colitis Presenting with Undiagnosed Back Pain

Objectives To test the performance of the 2025 ASAS-SPARTAN Revised Classification Criteria for Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA)[1] in a multicenter inception cohort of patients with undiagnosed chronic back pain attending dermatology, ophthalmology, and gastroenterology clinics w...

Exploring Training Needs to Facilitate Shared Decision Making in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Symptom Management and the Use of the JIA Option Map

Objectives Our team developed the JIA Option Map, a web-based patient decision aid (PDA) designed to support shared decision-making (SDM) for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) symptom management. Since training for health care providers (HCP) can enhance SDM and the use of PDAs...

Understanding the impact of meeting performance measures on the outcomes of joint replacement in rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based study in British Columbia, Canada

Objective Canadian performance measures (PMs) evaluate the quality of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) care; however limited evidence exists linking these process measures to long-term patient outcomes. This research evaluated the impact of meeting PMs in early RA on 10-year risk of tot...

Novel Indicators for Monitoring Rheumatoid Arthritis Care Quality: A Delphi Consensus Process to Determine Rheumatoid Arthritis-Specific Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions

Objectives Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) constitute a set of medical conditions where access to high quality outpatient healthcare services prevents or reduces costly acute care interactions for exacerbations of these diseases. Hospitalizations for ACSCs serve as i...

Identifying a Gap in Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Testing in Young Patients with Thrombotic and Obstetric Events

Objectives Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by thrombosis and/or certain obstetric complications in the presence of persistent antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). In previous studies, 17% of patients <50 years old who experienced a...