
Brokered Dialogue
Brokered Dialogue is a new film-based qualitative research method designed to foster dialogue on controversial health and social issues, particularly in circumstances in which dialogue...
View Project ProfileWhen we take on a project, we see more than a clinical trial, a registry or an economic evaluation. We see an opportunity to work with researchers, practitioners, policymakers, government funding agencies and private industry in our quest to impact patient care and policy decisions.
The BRIDGES program is an innovative initiative jointly led by the Departments of Medicine (DOM) and Family & Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto. The goals of this program are to explore systemic health services delivery challenges within Ontario in hospitals, primary care clinics, and community services, and rapidly review, test, and evaluate new and cost effective solutions to health delivery that will improve the care and health of Ontarians.
Learn MoreBRIDGES is a complex project involving nine different teams of researchers with varied levels of experience. The people at the HUB helped pull the project together through a consistent approach to engaging each group, with a responsive and highly competent team with a wide range of services. They’ve been a joy to work with as the BRIDGES executive, and the teams are all extremely satisfied with their work. It would have been difficult to pull together such a large project so quickly without the help of the health economics, applied health research, and knowledge translation teams at the HUB.
The BRIDGES partnership with the HUB has been critical to making BRIDGES a success. It has provided us and our project teams with centralized access to a wide range of expertise and has helped us build stronger working relationships, increased the consistency of our work and enhanced our operational efficiency.
Brokered Dialogue is a new film-based qualitative research method designed to foster dialogue on controversial health and social issues, particularly in circumstances in which dialogue...
View Project ProfileThis is a multi-centre prospective study of patients with premature and unexplained stroke found among participating institutions across Canada.
View Project ProfileThe CATCH-ED program is an intervention designed to connect frequent users of mental health and addictions services in Emegency Departments in downtown Toronto to community-based...
View Project ProfileThe Inpatient Code Stroke protocol was a quality improvement initiative targeting high risk patients who develop an acute stroke while in hospital was implemented at...
View Project ProfileThe OBI:POND Registry is a large clinical database of children and youth with Neurodevelopmental Disorders, which will allow to properly characterize these children using...
View Project ProfileThe ACCELERATION program aims to test and to confirm the efficacy of a robust evidence-based rehab-originated model for prevention of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular...
View Project ProfileFollowing treatment, breast cancer patients can feel ‘lost in transition'. To address this, a 3-phase qualitative pilot study was conducted whereby we designed, implemented and...
View Project ProfileThis film-based knowledge translation (KT) project focused on the Creative Works Studio, an arts-based occupational therapy and vocational rehabilitation program that facilitates community re-integration for...
View Project ProfileWe were asked by the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health to apply our Brokered Dialogue method to study controversies surrounding drug funding...
View Project ProfileWhen women have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, they experience significantly lower survival-to-discharge rates than men. The reasons for this are unclear. The goal for this...
View Project ProfileThe goals of the International Observational Study are to describe variation in weaning practices at national and international levels and the association between this variation...
View Project ProfileThis project uses photo voice methodology to study experiences of child custody loss and its implications for perinatal health care delivery from the perspectives of...
View Project ProfileThis Canadian-led multicentre prospective cohort study aims to identify the optimal approach for assessing patients’ physical fitness for major non-cardiac surgery. The METS Study will...
View Project ProfileOlder adults who had a fragility fracture are at higher risk to have another fragility fracture, especially if they have osteoporosis.
View Project ProfileThe BETTER Coalition is comprised of policy, practice and research partners and the overarching aim of this coalition is to improve chronic disease prevention and...
View Project ProfileThis longitudinal research study investigates acute demyelination in children across 23 sites in Canada. The primary objective of this comprehensive study is to...
View Project ProfileThe objective of this multi-centre, prospective cohort study is to determine the incidence of clinical and radiographic events related to the natural history and treatment...
View Project ProfileCLARIFY is an international, prospective, longitudinal registry in outpatients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) and it is being undertaken to improve knowledge about the...
View Project ProfileCORRELATE is a prospective, nation-wide, multi-centre, cohort study of adolescents and adults late after Tetratology of Fallot (TOF)repair. This study is taking place in 10...
View Project ProfileEMBRACE is a randomized controlled trial whose primary objective is to determine the diagnostic yield of a 30-day cardiac event monitor compared to a repeat 24...
View Project ProfileEVREST II is a pilot randomized, two parallel group study comparing Wii Gaming versus Recreational activity in patients receiving standard rehabilitation after stroke, and to...
View Project ProfileQuality indicators of stroke care are important in the treatment and management of acute stroke, and can act as a standard measure representing optimal care...
View Project ProfileThe goal of this collaboration was to develop and validate a risk score to predict mortality and disability or institutionalization in stroke patients based on...
View Project ProfileMENTOR is a multi-center randomized controlled Phase III trial that tests whether B cell targeting with Rituximab is more effective, reduces the number of relapses,...
View Project ProfileNorthern RSV is a prospective, multi-centered, non-interventional observational study. Led by Dr. Anna Banerji, the goal is to identify the RSV and other respiratory viruses...
View Project ProfileThe primary objective of NT-proBNP, a prospective, randomized, parallel, blinded controlled clinical trial, is to compare the diagnostic prediction model versus clinical judgment alone in...
View Project ProfileOptEC is a pragmatic randomized trial led by Dr. Patricia Parkin with over-arching aims to improve the early childhood developmental outcomes and advance the evidence...
View Project ProfileThe primary aims of Oxytocin in Autism is to identify the effect of IN oxytocin (IN-OXT) vs. placebo on measures of social cognition and function...
View Project ProfileROSII is a randomized, double-blinded controlled trial. The primary objective is to compare the antiviral efficacy of a 10 day course of standard and high-dose oseltamivir...
View Project ProfileA retrospective cohort study evaluating the continuity - between hospital and community care - of evidence-based stroke care with anti-hypertensive and lipid-lowering agents.
View Project ProfileSpotlight is a randomized controlled trial that will compare the effects of rFVIIa vs. placebo on attenuating ICH growth, and explore variables that modify treatment...
View Project ProfileSTARRT-AKI is a pilot trial that looks to determine whether, in critically ill patients with severe AKI, randomization to accelerated initiation of RRT, compared with...
View Project ProfileTARGetKids! (Toronto Applied Research Group) is a prospective registry enrolling healthy children aged 0-5 years. The aim of the registry is to link early nutritional...
View Project ProfileTRICS II is a randomized controlled trial that looks at "restrictive" versus "liberal" transfusion strategies in major cardiac surgery patients to determine enrollment rates, consent...
View Project ProfileThe main objective of the Virtual Ward study is to perform a pragmatic, randomized controlled trial to compare admission to a Virtual Ward following hospital...
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