The Foundation makes available the summaries of ongoing research funded by the Foundation.
The Foundation primarily sponsors and promotes applied health systems research through its funded programs. Most programs are jointly funded by the Foundation and other organizations — in particular, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), provincial ministries and agencies and decision-making organizations that have a particular interest in the topic at hand.
To ensure research is relevant to decision makers, the Foundation focuses its resources on priority health-system issues and on filling gaps in applied health services and policy research, including nursing management and organization issues.
All competition proposals are reviewed by merit review panels composed of researchers and decision makers. The panels assess proposals for their scientific merit and their potential impact on the health system. This innovative approach sets the Foundation apart from other research funding bodies.
Research in progress summaries from the Open Grants Competition are listed below, grouped by funding theme.
| Health Human Resources |
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| No research in progress at this time. |
| Primary Healthcare |
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| No research in progress at this time. |
| Nursing Leadership, Organization and Policy |
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| Integrating New Nursing Graduates into the Workplace: Strategies for Retention and Career Development
Guse, Lorna |
| Optimize the quality of nursing practice in palliative care in a context of shifting to ambulatory care
Fillion, Lise / Morin, Diane |
| Understanding the Costs and Outcomes of Nurses' Turnover in Canadian Hospitals
O'Brien-Pallas, Linda / Tomblin Murphy, Gail / Shamian, Judith |
| Managing Continuity |
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| Pharmacy Continuity of Care: Would better communication improve prescribing for seniors?
Jaakkemainen, Liisa |
| Seamless Pharmaceutical Care for Patients with Heart Failure
Woodend, Kirsten / Ross, Heather |
| The LINCS Research Program: Listen, Innovate, Navigate, Connect and Share
Smith, Donna Lynn / Austin, Carol |
| Defining the medicare 'basket' |
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| No research in progress at this time. |
| Access for rural and remote communities |
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| Models for organizing primary healthcare services and access to services required by rural, remote, and isolated communities in Quebec
Gauthier, Josée / Haggerty, Jeannie |
| Centralization and Aggregation of Health Services |
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| No research in progress at this time. |
