Publications

How do lawyers assist their clients with advance care planning? Findings from a cross-sectional survey of lawyers in Alberta, Canada (2019)

Doctors, lawyers and advance care planning: time for innovation to work together to meet client needs (2016)

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Association between Goals of Care Designation orders and health care resource use among seriously ill older adults in acute care: a multicentre prospective cohort study (2022)

Content of Serious Illness Care conversation documentation is associated with goals of care orders-a quantitative evaluation in hospital (2022)

Advance care planning dashboard: quality indicators and usability testing (2021)

Identification and operationalisation of indicators to monitor successful uptake of advance care planning policies: a modified Delphi study (2021)

Efficacy of advance care planning videos for patients: a randomized controlled trial in cancer, heart, and kidney failure outpatient settings (2021)

How to increase public participation in advance care planning: findings from a World Café to elicit community group perspectives (2019)

Behaviors in Advance Care Planning and ACtions Survey (BACPACS): development and validation (2017)

Measuring advance care planning: optimizing the advance care planning engagement survey (2017)

Measuring engagement in advance care planning: a cross-sectional multicentre feasibility study (2016)

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Alberta interprofessional palliative care competency framework (2023) 

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Alberta discipline-specific palliative care competency frameworks (2020) 

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Developing the Understanding Palliative Care module: a quality improvement initiative incorporating public, patient, and family caregiver perspectives (2025)

Growing and sustaining Compassionate Communities: 2023 forum report (2024)

Building Compassionate Communities: 2022 forum report addendum (2024)

Building Compassionate Communities: 2022 forum report (2022)

A safe space to talk about death: a report on Death Cafes in Alberta (2022)

Raising public awareness of palliative care: a 2021 survey of Alberta hospice and palliative care societies (2022)

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Albertans’ views on advance care planning & palliative care (2024)

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A mixed-method evaluation of a volunteer navigation intervention for older persons living with chronic illness (Nav-CARE): findings from a knowledge translation study (2020)

A feasibility study of a volunteer navigation program in the palliative context (2020)

Sustainability of a rural volunteer program (Nav-CARE): a case study (2020)

Volunteer navigation partnerships: piloting a compassionate community approach to early palliative care (2018)

Developing navigation competencies to care for older rural adults with advanced illness (2016)

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Preferences for continence care experienced at end of life: a qualitative study (2019)

Does increasing home care nursing reduce emergency department visits at the end of life? A population-based cohort study of cancer decedents (2016)

End-of-life cancer care: temporal association between homecare nursing and hospitalizations (2016)

Quality indicators of end-of-life care in patients with cancer: what rate is right? (2015)

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Building a new life: A qualitative study of how family carers deal with significant change (2022)

Systematic review of factors associated with hope in family carers of persons living with chronic illness (2021)

Using focus groups to explore caregiver transitions and needs after placement of family members living with dementia in 24-hour care homes (2020)

Mixed-methods single-arm repeated measures study evaluating the feasibility of a web-based intervention to support family carers of persons with dementia in long term care facilities (2018)

Feasibility study of an online intervention to support male spouses of women with breast cancer (2017)

Family caregiver participation in palliative care research: Challenging the myth (2017)

A metasynthesis study of family caregivers’ transition experiences caring for community-dwelling persons with advanced cancer at the end of life (2016)

‘All I can do is help’: Transition experiences of male spouse caregivers of women with breast cancer (2016)

Transitions of male partners of women with breast cancer: Hope, guilt and quality of life (2015)

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Stakeholder perspectives towards implementing the national framework on palliative care in Canada (2022)

Palliative care stakeholders in Canada (2022)

Engaging stakeholders to improve policy and access to quality palliative care in Canada (2020)

Consensus development conference: promoting access to quality palliative care in Canada (2018) 

Evaluating public engagement for a consensus development conference (2018)

Rapid review and synthesis of the Palliative Care Matters scientific evidence (2018)

How Canada’s health system needs to change: consensus statement of the Palliative Care Matters lay panel (2016)

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Edmonton classification system for cancer pain (ECS-CP): comparison of pain classification features and pain intensity across diverse palliative care settings in Canada (2023)

Opioid safety recommendations in adult palliative medicine: a North American Delphi expert consensus (2022)

Investigating the benefits and harms of hypodermoclysis of patients in palliative care: a consecutive cohort study (2022)

Transcultural validation of the French version of the modified Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale: The ESAS12-F (2019)

Predictive impact of clinical benefit in chemotherapy-treated advanced pancreatic cancer patients in Northern Alberta (2018) 

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in TAOK3 are associated with high opioid requirement for pain management in patients with advanced cancer admitted to a tertiary palliative care unit (2018)

What is stable pain control? A prospective longitudinal study to assess the clinical value of a personalized pain goal (2017)

Continuous palliative sedation for existential distress? A survey of Canadian palliative care physicians' views (2017)

Development of a French version of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System-Revised: A pilot study of palliative care patients’ perspectives (2017)

From "breakthrough" to "episodic" cancer pain? A European Association for Palliative Care Research Network expert Delphi survey toward a common terminology and classification of transient cancer pain exacerbations (2016)

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Definitions of palliative care terms: a consensus-oriented decision-making process (2021)

Frequency, timing, and predictors of palliative care consultation in patients with advanced cancer at a tertiary cancer center: secondary analysis of routinely collected health data (2020)

A retrospective thematic analysis of patient, family, and staff creative art tiles developed on a tertiary palliative care unit (2020)

Clinical characteristics of patients having single versus multiple patient encounters within a palliative care program (2019)

Living in the space between: integrating art therapy techniques in palliative care (2018)

Impact of adding a pictorial display to enhance recall of cancer patient histories: a randomized trial (2017)

The psychosocial experiences of older palliative patients while participating in a Living with Hope program (2016)

The effect of community-based specialist palliative care teams on place of care (2016)

Early palliative care and its translation into oncology practice in Canada: barriers and challenges (2015)

Indicators of integration of oncology and palliative care programs: An international consensus (2015)

Feasibility of a pedometer-based walking program for breast and head and neck cancer survivors undergoing radiation therapy (2015)

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