Measuring what matters: capturing patients' experiences with their medications

Join the Network for Improving Health Systems (NIHS) for a special webinar on January 21, led by one of our NIHS-funded research teams.

This webinar will share findings from the team's mixed methods study exploring implementation considerations for the use of patient-reported experience measures for medications. The team will facilitate a discussion on next steps for this research, which will include seeking partners and pilot sites to be involved in future funding opportunities focused on the development and implementation of a patient-reported experience measure for medications.

The team is currently investigating future funding opportunities, and are seeking partners to be actively involved in the development and implementation of a patient-reported experience measure for medications. The team is also looking to identify potential pilot sites to pilot the patient-reported experience tool in practice. If you are interested in learning more, we invite you to join us on January 21 for an engaging presentation on the work completed to date and a dynamic discussion on next steps to build a tool to support patient medication experiences. 

About the Presenters:

• Dr. Sara Guilcher (BSc, MSc, MScPT, PhD) is the Principal Investigator and Scientific Director of the Optimizing Health and Healthcare Experiences (OPTI-HEx) Lab.  Sara is an Associate Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. Sara has clinical training in physical therapy and clinical health psychology, along with applied health services research expertise.

• Dr. Rasha El-Kotob (PhD) completed her BSc in Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo, MSc in Rehabilitation Science at the University of Toronto, and PhD in Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo. Rasha has multi-method and mixed method research experience. She joined the Optimizing Health and Healthcare Experiences (OPTI-HEx) Lab in March of 2023 as a Research Associate.

• Lauren Cadel (MSc) is a PhD candidate in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. Lauren has been a member of the Optimizing Health and Healthcare Experiences (OPTI-HEx) Lab since 2017. Her thesis work focuses on co-developing, revising, and evaluating a toolkit intervention that aims to improve medication self-management among adults with spinal cord injury/dysfunction in Canada.

• Jacob Crawshaw, PhD is a Senior Methodologist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa and Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, Toronto. His research program focuses on using systematic methods and theory from behavioural and implementation science to address health-related challenges among patients/public, healthcare providers, and health systems.