Publications by BC Centre for Palliative Care

Peer-reviewed Articles:

2021

• Part of the solution: A survey of community organisation perspectives on barriers and facilitating actions to Advance Care Planning in British Columbia, Canada

• Choosing Educational Resources to Build Interprofessional, Palliative Care Competency: A Replicable Review Methodology
• Adaptations to the Serious Illness Conversation Guide to Be More Culturally Safe

White Papers & Reports:

2022

• Enablers and Barriers to Using the Serious Illness Conversation Guide: A Quality Improvement Initiative with BC Cancer Clinicians, March 2022

2021

• Evaluation of the Seed Grant Program Cycle 4 –August 2020 – June 2021  
• ACP Day 2021 Campaign Report Executive Summary
• Implementing Advance Care Planning Tools in Practice – 2021
• A provincial approach to adapt the Serious Illness Conversation Program from Ariadne Labs to the Context of the Health System in BC.

2020

• Public Polls Commissioned by BCCPC on Advance Care Planning in BC in 2020 and 2016
• Health Care Assistant Needs Assessment – June 2020
• A Framework for Palliative Care Education and Training in British Columbia- January 2020
• ECHO-BC-Palliative-Psychosocial Pilot Evaluation- July 2020
• Advance Care Planning for People Living with Dementia: Environmental Scan– April 2020

2019

• Hospice Care in British Columbia: A Current State Assessment- October 2019

2018

• Best Practices for ACP Documentation in B.C.- August 2018
• Integration of a Palliative Approach to Care and the Role of Serious Illness Conversations in Advance Care Planning- August 2018

2015

• The Public Health Approach to Palliative Care- August 2015

Conference Abstracts & Presentations

2021

Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association Conference

1. Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on grief and bereavement in BC: a province-wide current state analysis. Presenters: Joshua Black, Kathleen Yue and Anica Butters  
2. Promoting Engagement of People Living with Dementia and Family/Friend Caregivers in Advance Care Planning through Community-led Programs. Presenters: Kathy Sheng and Myrna Norman (Patient Partner)  
3. From Scarcity to Abundancy: Volunteers as link between Compassionate Communities and Health Human Resource. Presenters: Tina Lowery and Melody Jobse  
4. From quiet conversations to a booming ECHO: the story of building connection and practice support for isolated care providers.  Presenters: Kathleen Yue, Mary Coleman (Canuck Place), Marney Thompson (Victoria Hospice)  
5. Creating online learning that won’t put learners to sleep. Presenters: Kathleen Yue and Katie Green (UBC medical student)  
6. “We’re not a hindrance; we’re an enhancement”: Community organization perspectives on barriers and facilitators to Advance Care Planning in BC. Presenters: Ellie Siden (UBC Medical Student) and Eman Hassan  
7. Adapting and translating an Advance Care Planning public education model for Chinese and South Asian Communities - Experiences and Recommendations from a provincial initiative in BC. Presenters: Eman Hassan and Rachel Carter  
8. Evaluation of culturally and linguistically adapted Advance Care Planning sessions for Chinese and South Asian Communities in BC. Presenters: Eman Hassan and Pam Martin  
9. Supporting clinicians to adopt a culturally considerate approach to Advance Care Planning conversations with patients. Presenters: Eman Hassan and Rachel Carter  
10. Current state, challenges, and successes of compassionate communities in British Columbia. Presenters: Jasper Yoo (UBC Medical Student) and Eman Hassan  
11. Pan-Canadian Compassionate Communities Evaluation Framework and Toolkit – Supporting evaluation from the bottom-up. Presenters: Eman Hassan, Bonnie Tompkins (Pallium Canada) and Julie Darnay (Hospice Palliative Care Ontario) 

Quality Forum 

• Adapting the SICG for patients from Diverse Communities Elizabeth Beddard-Huber, Justin J Sanders and Dana-Farber (Ariadne Lab), Nicole Wikjord (FNHA)
• Promoting engagement of People Living with Dementia and their Family/Friend Caregivers in Advance Care Planning through Community-led Interventions Kathy Sheng; Eman Hassan; Myrna Norman (Patient Partner)

• Supporting a culturally considerate approach to Advance Care Planning conversations between clinicians and patients Rachel Carter, Thomas Shajan, Jing Xu, Eman Hassan
• Building competence and connection of psychosocial palliative care providers through a virtual community: Project ECHO Kathleen Yue
• Using social media and analytics to increase engagement of Health Care Assistants during COVID-19 Kathleen Yue

Publications from Research Sponsored by BC Centre for Palliative Care:

Cook, K. & Bergeron, K. (2020). Palliative care for young adults with life limiting conditions: Public health recommendations. British Medical Journal: Supportive and Palliative Care. http://spcare.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmjspcare-2019-002042

 

Cook, K. & Bergeron, K. (2019). Using Group Concept Mapping to engage a hard-to-reach population in research: Young adults with life-limiting conditions. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406919891315