Presentations

Building Bridges: Multidisciplinary Research, at University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy, Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Authors: K. Mercer, K Grindrod, C Burns, L Guirguis, J Chin, J Dogba, L Dolovitch, L Guénette, L Jenkins, F Légaré, A McKinnon, J McMurray, K Waked.

Objective: To describe how engaging patients and other disciplines can change conclusions in qualitative health services research.

Approach: A recent qualitative research project included a multi-disciplinary research team of health care professionals, engineers, information specialists, health systems specialists and patients. From this, two papers are...

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Playing Telephone: Interdisciplinary Study of Medication Decision Making Across Prescribers, Patients and Pharmacists, at 2017 NAPCRG Annual Meeting, Sunday, November 19, 2017

Kelly Grindrod; Catherine Burns; Jessie Chin; Maman Joyce Dogba; Line Guénette; Lisa Guirguis; Damla Kerestecioglu; France Legare; Annette McKinnon; Kate Mercer; Khrystine Waked

Context: In shared-decision making (SDM), clinicians and patients works together to make treatment decisions that includes patient values and preferences. For medications, most SDM research has focused on interactions between prescriber and patient or patient and pharmacist but not the interdisciplinary collaboration across disciplines. Objective: To study how electronic health records (EHRs) and...

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Building Bridges: How Research Changes in Multi-Disciplinary Patient Inclusive Settings , at CAPT 2017, Monday, October 23, 2017

Mercer K, Waked K, Burns C, Dogba J, Dolovitch L, Guenette L, Guirguis L, Jenkins L, Legare F, McKinnon A, Grindrod K.

Objective: To describe how engaging patients and other disciplines can change conclusions in qualitative health services research. Approach/Methods: A recent qualitative research project included a multi-disciplinary research team of health care professionals, engineers, information specialists, health systems specialists and patients. From this, two papers are being developed: 1) patient perspective on shared decision making; 2) healthcare professionals and...

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Playing Telephone: Understanding the state of medication decision making in growing healthcare teams in the time of electronic health records. , at Waterloo-Wellington Clinical Research and Quality Improvement Symposium 2017 , Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Authors: Grindrod, K., Burns, C., Guirguis, L., Abidi, S., Borsema, J., Chabot, C., Chin*, J., Dogba, J., Guenette, L., Legare, F., Mercer, K., McKinnon, A., Waked, K.  Read more about Playing Telephone: Understanding the state of medication decision making in growing healthcare teams in the time of electronic health records.
Playing Telephone: Understanding the state of medication decision making in growing healthcare teams in the time of electronic health records, at CAHSPR 2017, Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Authors: : Kelly Grindrod, Catherine Burns, Samina Abidi, Jonathan Boersema, Christian Chabot, Jessie Chin, Maman Joyce Dogba, Lisa Dolovich, LIne Guénette, Lisa Guirguis, Damla Kerestecioglu, France Légaré, Annette McKinnon, Kathryn Mercer, Khrystine Waked.

To study how electronic health information is shared across patients, family physicians and pharmacies, including the types of information typically exchanged, tools that support interprofessional shared medication decision-making and best practices related to the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for decision...

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How Two Librarians became co-instructors in a First Year Course, at Ontario Library Association 2015 conference, Friday, February 13, 2015

Authors: Shannon Gordon, Kate Mercer

Abstract

In Spring 2014, two librarians co-instructed an undergraduate Pharmacy course at the University of Waterloo. Providing students with the skills to access medical/drug information, this course gave students the skills to critically appraise literature to support an evidence-based patient care model. This poster shares their experience co-instructing a required course co-taught with the School of Pharmacy’s Director, an expert in critical appraisal.

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Imposter Syndrome: Bridging the Gap Between Humanities & Science, at Ontario Library Association 2017 conference
Authors: Caitlin Carter, Kate Mercer
Abstract

While many librarians possess undergraduate degrees in the humanities, increasingly, there are excellent job prospects emerging in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. New graduates and librarians who are going through a career change are faced with what seems like an insurmountable challenge: how to build the skills to transition successfully into positions outside of their backgrounds. This session will demonstrate how two librarians with humanities degrees obtained fulfilling careers in the...

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Understanding Undergraduate Engineering Student Information Access and Needs: Results from a Scoping Review., at OLA SuperConference, 2018 Toronto, Ontario

Authors: Kate Mercer, Ariel Stables-Kennedy, Kari Weaver

How do undergraduate engineering students access information and understand what constitutes a good and legitimate source in the field? This scoping review summarizes the existing research on this topic, identifies potential future research directions, and provides librarians with guidance on the conduct of scoping review methodology.

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