Caring for a child with a life-threatening condition is an experience that no parent should go through alone. Paediatric palliative care programs (PPCPs) provide a holistic approach to such care and allow for entire families to stay together with their sick child without having to worry about limited visiting hours, or costs for accommodations or meals.
A project born out of researcher-clinician collaborations through the Rehabilitation Research Program, a Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) program located at the G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, is demonstrating how an online health resource can be highly credible and effective in disseminating research information, so much so that frontline clinicians change how they treat their patients.
Despite air pollution levels being lower than they used to be in places such as Canada and the U.S., air quality remains a persistent problem requiring increasingly sophisticated research tools to understand how deeply it affects human health, according to Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute scientist and respirologist, Dr. Chris Carlsten.
The annual Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute Investigator Awards promote excellence in health research as peer-reviewed salary support awards. The awards give investigators at Vancouver General Hospital, UBC Hospital, and G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre the opportunity to reduce their clinical practice commitments in order to build their research capacity and expand the possibilities of bringing knowledge from bench to bedside.
Parents and kids can officially jump for joy, knowing that physical activity such as jumping may actually be doing children's bones a world of good. A study co-authored by Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute scientist Dr.
Although family physicians (FPs) and home health staff (HHS) understand the value of coordinating care to improve the health of their shared patients, they continue to face major obstacles such as difficulty achieving timely communication to clarify medical orders, and limited opportunities to develop common care plans for patients with complex needs.
In the process of researching public opinion about gene therapy, a medical procedure aimed at delivering new genetic material into a person to prevent or treat a disease, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute scientist Dr. Julie Robillard unexpectedly found that beyond personal risk concerns, people were most troubled by the lack of information around the experimental treatment.
Clostridium difficile, or C. difficile, is a bacteria that can cause infection when the balance of normal bacteria in the digestive system is upset. Approximately 5% of the population may carry C. difficile without any health problems1. But for others, carrying it can damage the bowel, lead to diarrhea and dehydration, and in extreme cases cause life-threatening complications.
