Grant: Planning Grants - PA: Community-based Primary Healthcare

We are proposing a 3 day face-to-face planning and development meeting in Victoria, British Columbia to develop a CIHR Team Grant proposal focusing on developing, testing and evaluating interventions and innovative and integrated models of community-based primary health care for people with life-limiting chronic conditions. Specifically, we will: (a) review relevant aspects of the existing literature on innovative models for health system delivery at the EOL; (b) summarize key findings from our collective research in order to identify our research priorities, map out our respective interests and expertise, and identify points of synergy among team members; (c) identify and address methodological, logistical and ethical issues related to undertaking this research; (d) determine gaps in our research program and team membership, and identify strategies to ameliorate them; (e) build on partnerships established among clinical leaders, researchers, and decision makers; and; (f) draft a detailed outline of our Team Grant proposal. The key outcome of our meeting is a Team Grant proposal that will be submitted to the CIHR Initiative on Community-Based Primary Healthcare.