Grant: Cat Gr: Policy Research for HST -SPOR-Patient-Oriented Health Care Systems Res.

There is a growing need to incorporate patient-centred measurements into healthcare systems to deliver on the promise of patient-centred care. Compared to other Canadian provinces, Saskatchewan (SK) is lacking in the collection, analysis, dissemination, and translation into clinical practice of important patient-reported measures. These measures are essential to guide policy and practice in evolving healthcare systems. Using a patient-oriented research approach, this proposed project will run ongoing evaluations to assess the initial collection of patient-reported experience and outcome measures in four to six primary care health networks across SK. The research team, including academics, policymaker knowledge users, collaborators, and patient partners as equal team members will engage in three distinct phases to 1) Generate evidence, 2) Contextualize the evidence, and 3) Re-formulate and disseminate the evidence. By employing this strategy, the team will share initial results at a virtual policy forum with stakeholders (SK Health Authority [SHA], Indigenous organizations and governments, and the Ministry of Health). Feedback from the forum will be used to produce a final report of three policy options to implement patient-centred measurements in SK. This project will improve our understanding of how to successfully collect patient-centred measurements in health networks so learning can occur with each patient encounter and the SHA can advance learning health systems. Driven by patient partner engagement, findings from our evaluation will inform what is required for the successful collection of patient-reported experience and outcome measures to inform policies that will improve the health of SK people.