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Bridging technological advancements with clinical insights, we contribute to the research community through our high-quality, peer-reviewed publications.

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Heart health & shared care

Heart health & shared care · Publication

Machine Learning Enhanced Expert System for Detecting Heart Failure Decompensation Using Patient Reported Vitals and Electronic Health Records

Shumit Saha, Heather Ross, Pedro Elkind Velmovitsky, Chloe X Wang, Julie KK Vishram-Nielsen, Cedric Manlhiot, Bo Wang, Joseph A Cafazzo

Heart health & shared care · Publication

Applying the Blended KTA-Sprint Framework to a Usability Assessment of a Digital Health Module for Informal Caregivers Co-Managing Heart Failure

Ting Xiong, Camila Benmessaoud, Kaylen J. Pfisterer, Noor El-Dassouki, Raima Lohani, Karen Young, and Quynh Pham

Heart health & shared care · Publication

Exploring the use of a digital therapeutic intervention to support the pediatric cardiac care journey: Qualitative study on clinician perspectives

Sahr Wali, Alliya Remtulla Tharani, Diana Balmer-Minnes, Joseph A. Cafazzo, Jessica Laks, and Aamir Jeewa

Heart health & shared care · Publication

A Voice App Design for Heart Failure Self-management: Proof-of-Concept Implementation Study

Antonia Barbaric, Cosmin Munteanu, Heather Ross and Joseph A Cafazzo

Heart health & shared care · Publication

Design of a Patient Voice App Experience for Heart Failure Management: Usability Study

Antonia Barbaric, Cosmin Munteanu, Heather Ross, Joseph A Cafazzo

Heart health & shared care · Publication

The Value of Technology to Support Dyadic Caregiving for Individuals Living With Heart Failure: Qualitative Descriptive Study

Noor El-Dassouki, Kaylen Pfisterer, Camila Benmessaoud, Karen Young, Kelly Ge, Raima Lohani, Aravinth Saragadam, Quynh Pham

Heart health & shared care · Publication

Outcomes of a Heart Failure Telemonitoring Program Implemented as the Standard of Care in an Outpatient Heart Function Clinic: Pretest-Posttest Pragmatic Study.

Patrick Ware, Heather Ross, Joseph Cafazzo, Chris Boodoo, Mikayla Munnery, Emily Seto

Heart health & shared care · Study protocol

A Mobile Phone–Based Telemonitoring Program for Heart Failure Patients After an Incidence of Acute Decompensation (Medly-AID): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Emily Seto, Heather Ross, Alana Tibbles, Steven Wong, Patrick Ware, Edward Etchells, Jeremy Kobulnik, Tamanna Chibber, Stephanie Poon

Heart health & shared care · Publication

The Resilience of Cardiac Care Through Virtualized Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Study of a Heart Function Clinic

Amika Shah, Milena Guessi, Sahr Wali, Patrick Ware, Michael McDonald, Mary O’Sullivan, Juan Duero Posada, Heather Ross, Emily Seto

Design, equity & methods

Design, equity & methods · Publication

An Equity Analysis of Remote Patient Monitoring Programs Unveils Assumptions on Digital Health Equity

Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde, Vanessa Kishimoto, Kaylen J Pfisterer, Nishath Uddin, Katherine McGuire, Janette Brual, Kaitlyn Merriman, Payal Agarwal, Jeanette Smith, Myrtede Alfred, Michele Strom, Quynh Pham

Design, equity & methods · Publication

Evaluating Digitally Enabled Health Services

Carolyn Steele Gray, Nelson Shen, Quynh Pham, David Wiljer

Design, equity & methods · Publication

Health recommender systems to facilitate collaborative decision-making in chronic disease management: A scoping review

Antonia Barbaric, Kenneth Christofferson, Susanne M Benseler, Chitra Lalloo, Alex Mariakakis, Quynh Pham, Joost F Swart, Rae S M Yeung, and Joseph A Cafazzo

Design, equity & methods · Preprint

Understanding the Effectiveness and Design of Parent-Oriented Mobile Health Interventions: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis

Alicia Kilfoy, Isabella Zaffino, Enoch McAtee, Prabdeep Panesar, Kristin Cleverley, Quynh Pham, Charlene Chu and Lindsay Jibb

Design, equity & methods · Publication

Design of a Dyadic Digital Health Module for Chronic Disease Shared Care: Development Study

Camila Benmessaoud, Kaylen J Pfisterer, Anjelica De Leon, Ashish Saragadam, Noor El-Dassouki, Karen G M Young, Raima Lohani, Ting Xiong, and Quynh Pham

Design, equity & methods · Publication

Facing leadership that kills

Alejandro R. Jadad

Design, equity & methods · Publication

The Complexity of Transferring Remote Monitoring and Virtual Care Technology Between Countries: Lessons From an International Workshop

Quynh Pham, David Wong, Kaylen J Pfisterer, Dionne Aleman, Nick Bansback, Joseph A Cafazzo, Alexander J Casson, Brian Chan, William Dixon, Gerasimos Kakaroumpas, Claudia Lindner, Niels Peek, Henry WW Potts, Barbara Ribeiro, Emily Seto, Charlotte Stockton-Powdrell, Alexander Thompson, Sabine Van der Veer

Design, equity & methods · Publication

Maximizing the value of patient and public involvement in the digital health co-design process: A qualitative descriptive study with design leaders and patient-public partners

Paula Voorheis, Jeremy Petch, Quynh Pham, Kerry Kuluski

Design, equity & methods · Publication

Characterizing Canadian long-term care home consumed foods and their inflammatory potential: a secondary analysis

Kaylen J. Pfisterer, Robert Amelard, Heather H. Keller and Alexander Wong

Design, equity & methods · Study protocol

Identifying essential factors that influence user engagement with digital mental health tools in clinical care settings: Protocol for a Delphi study

Brian Lo , Quynh Pham, Sanjeev Sockalingam, David Wiljer, and Gillian Strudwick

Design, equity & methods · Publication

A Multinational Delphi Consensus to End the COVID-19 Public Health Threat

Jeffrey Lazarus, Diana Romero, Christopher Kopka, Alex Jadad, and the COVID-19 Consensus Statement Panel

Design, equity & methods · Publication

Developing Digital Therapeutics: The University Health Network Experience

Quynh Pham and Joseph Cafazzo

Design, equity & methods · Publication

The Future of Virtual Care for Older Ethnic Adults Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

Quynh Pham, Noor El-Dassouki, Raima Lohani, Aravinth Jebanesan, Karen Young

Design, equity & methods · Publication

Beyond the Randomized Controlled Trial: A Review of Alternatives in mHealth Clinical Trial Methods

Quynh Pham, David Wiljer, Joseph Cafazzo

Cancer & survivorship

Cancer & survivorship · Publication

Lessons in Complexity Learned During a Canadian Virtual Pragmatic Trial for Prostate Cancer Survivorship

Kaylen J Pfisterer, Karen Young, Raima Lohani, Ting Xiong, Tiffane Anandarajan, Denise Ng, Tina Jiao, Caitlin Nunn, Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Ricardo Rendon, Robert J Hamilton, Jacqueline Bender, Ian Brown, Andrew Feifer, Geoffrey Gotto, Joseph A Cafazzo, Quynh Pham

Cancer & survivorship · Publication

Honoring the Care Experiences of Chinese Canadian Survivors of Prostate Cancer to Cultivate Cultural Safety and Relationality in Digital Health: Exploratory-Descriptive Qualitative Study

Karen Young, Ting Xiong, Rachel Lee, Ananya Tina Banerjee, Myles Leslie, Wellam Yu Ko, Julia Yu Jia Guo, and Quynh Pham

Cancer & survivorship · Publication

User-Centered Design and Usability of a Culturally Adapted Virtual Survivorship Care App for Chinese Canadian Prostate Cancer Survivors: Qualitative Descriptive Study

Karen Young, Ting Xiong, Rachel Lee, Ananya Tina Banerjee, Myles Leslie, Wellam Yu Ko, and Quynh Pham

Cancer & survivorship · Publication

A qualitative study on healthcare professional and patient perspectives on nurse-led virtual prostate cancer survivorship care

Karen Young, Ting Xiong, Kaylen J. Pfisterer, Denise Ng, Tina Jiao, Raima Lohani, Caitlin Nunn, Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Ricardo Rendon, Alejandro Berlin, Jacqueline Bender, Ian Brown, Andrew Feifer, Geoffrey Gotto, Joseph A. Cafazzo, and Quynh Pham

Cancer & survivorship · Publication

An Actionable Expert-System Algorithm to Support Nurse-Led Cancer Survivorship Care: Algorithm Development Study

Kaylen J Pfisterer, Raima Lohani, Elizabeth Janes, Denise Ng, Dan Wang, Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Ricardo Rendon, Alejandro Berlin, Jacqueline Bender, Ian Brown, Andrew Feifer, Geoffrey Gotto, Shumit Saha, Joseph A Cafazzo, and Quynh Pham

Cancer & survivorship · Study protocol

Adoption, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of a Mobile Health App for Personalized Prostate Cancer Survivorship Care: Protocol for a Realist Case Study of the Ned App

Quynh Pham, Joseph Cafazzo, Andrew Feifer

Everyday self-management

Everyday self-management · Study protocol

Understanding Whether and How a Digital Health Intervention Improves Transition Care for Emerging Adults Living With Type 1 Diabetes: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Realist Evaluation

Ruoxi Wang, Geneviève Rouleau, Gillian Lynn Booth, Anne-Sophie Brazeau, Noor El-Dassouki, Madison Taylor, Joseph A Cafazzo, Marley Greenberg, Meranda Nakhla, Rayzel Shulman, and Laura Desveaux

Everyday self-management · Study protocol

Text message-based intervention, Keeping in Touch (KiT), to support youth as they transition to adult type 1 diabetes care: a protocol for a multisite randomised controlled superiority trial

Geetha Sanmugalingham, Elise Mok, Joseph A Cafazzo, Laura Desveaux, Anne-Sophie Brazeau, Gillian L Booth, Marley Greenberg, Jessica Kichler, Valeria E Rac, Peter Austin, Ellen Goldbloom, Mélanie Henderson, Alanna Landry, Ian Zenlea, Madison Taylor, Meranda Nakhla, and Rayzel Shulman

Everyday self-management · Publication

A Patient-Centered Mobile Health System That Supports Asthma Self-Management (breathe): Design, Development, and Utilization.

Plinio Morita, Melanie Yeung, Madonna Ferrone, Ann Taite, Carole Madeley, Andrea Lavigne, Teresa To, Diane Lougheed, Samir Gupta, Andrew Day, Joseph Cafazzo, Christopher Licskai

Everyday self-management · Publication

Design of an mHealth app for the self-management of adolescent type 1 diabetes: a pilot study.

Joseph Cafazzo, Mark Casselman, Nathan Hamming, Debra Katzman, Mark Palmert