Annual Meetings

2024 APERSU End-User Meeting

The 8th APERSU End-User Meeting was held on October 24 & 25 at Lister Centre, Edmonton, AB. 

The day one recordings are available here, and the slides for both days are available here.

Online Forum 2022

The Use of PROMs in Health Systems: 3 implementation stories
This APERSU Virtual Symposium was held February 8, 2022. Three real-world PROMs implementation stories were highlighted in three clinical settings: primary care, cancer, and hip and knee arthroplasty. Please find the links to the presentations below:

• Meeting Proceedings

• Entire forum recording

• Going down the rabbit hole: Implementing PROMs in an Alberta Primary Care Network (Krista Brower)

• Integrating electronic PROs in routine ambulatory oncology practice: what, how, when, and why? (Linda Watson)

• Use of PROMs in arthroplasty in Alberta at different levels in the health system (Deborah Marshall)

Online Forums 2020 / 2021

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the APERSU Annual Meeting was not held in 2020. In lieu, a series of online forums on PROM use in two clinical settings were held.

Emerging Topics on PROMs in Primary Care
This meeting held on April 14, 2021, brought together PROMs end-users in Alberta and Quebec for routine outcome measurement and quality improvement in primary care.

• Online Forum Recording

• Meeting Proceedings

Emerging Topics on PROMs in Osteoarthritis and Arthroplasty
This meeting held on November 25, 2020, brought together osteoarthritis and hip and knee arthroplasty PROMs experts from across Canada.

• Online Forum Recording

• Meeting Proceedings

2020 APERSU Annual Report

Click here to download the 2020 APERSU Annual Report for an update on APERSU's activities.

Annual Meeting 2019

The 5th Annual End-User Meeting was held October 17-18, 2019, at the Coast Canmore Hotel and Conference Centre, Canmore, AB.

• Meeting Proceedings

• APERSU Overview and Update (Jeff Johnson)

• Keynote Talk: How do patient-reported outcome measures data stimulate health care improvement? (Joanne Greenhalgh)

• Integrating Digital Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) into Standard Ambulatory Care Processes Provinicially: Exploring the outcomes (Linda Watson)

• Application and Utility of PROMs in the Calgary Epilepsy Program (CEP) database, a large hospital-based registry of epilepsy patients (Kevin Perera)

• Launching into Spread and Scale: Implementing the EQ-5D-5L in Community Rehabilitation in Alberta Health Services (Katie Churchill and Lisa Warner)

• The use of PROMs data in Primary Care Settings in Alberta – A Panel Discussion (PCN Working Group)

• Red Deer PCN (Margo Schmitt-Boshnick)

• Palliser PCN (Shea Wilks)

• Grande Prairie PCN (Michel Haener)

• Edmonton Oliver PCN (Krista Brower)

• The Discriminative Validity of the EQ-5D-5L Pain/Discomfort Dimension in Type 2 Diabetes (Kai Kao)

• An overview and update on APERSU’s work on Minimally Important Difference (MID) (Jennifer Jin)

• Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) – PROMs Update (Nicole De Guia)

• Pan-Canadian implementation of Patient Reported Outcomes at CPAC: Opportunities, Challenges and Lessons Learned (Deborah Dudgeon)

• The Future of PROMs data and Surveying at the HQCA (Markus Lahtinen)

• Leveraging routinely collected PROMs data for policy and economic analysis – A Panel Discussion

• PROMs in Connect Care (Stafford Dean)

• CIHI perspectives on the use of patient-reported data at a national level (Sunita Karmakar-Hore)

• Routinely collected PROMs in economic evaluation (Jeff Round)

2019 APERSU Annual Report

Click here to download the 2019 APERSU Annual Report for an update on APERSU's activities.

Annual Meeting 2018

The 4th Annual APERSU End-user Meeting was held on October 11-12, 2018, at the Varscona Hotel, in Edmonton, Alberta

• Meeting Proceedings

• PCN Panel Discussion

2018 APERSU Annual Report

Click here to download the 2018 APERSU Annual Report for an update on APERSU's activities.

Annual Meeting 2017

The 3rd Annual APERSU End-user Meeting was held on November 15-16, 2017, at the Coast Canmore Hotel and Conference Centre, in Canmore, Alberta

• Meeting Proceedings

• Overview and Update on APERSU (Jeff Johnson)

• More than a tick-box exercise: Leveraging modern technology to realise the potential of PROs in clinical practice (Chris Gibbons)

• Progress and regress in the English NHS PROMs programme: what can be learned? (David Parkin)

• Routine PROMs Measurement in Health System – CIHI Update (Ellis Chow)

• Implementing PROMS & PREMS in CancerControl Alberta (Andrea Deiure & Olga Maciejewski)

• EQ-5D variations in a large, hospital-based registry of epilepsy patients (Colin Bruce Josephson)

• Relationship of Deprivation with Health-related Quality of life (HRQOL) in General Population (Tahmid Kashem)

• Discriminative Validity of the EQ-5D-5L and SF-12 in Older Adults with Arthritis (Andrews Tawiah)

• A comparison of cross-sectional psychometric properties of EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L among patients who received hip and knee replacements (Jennifer Jin & Fatima Al Sayah)

• EQ-5D Measurement at the HQCA (Roland Simon)

• Validating the EQ5DY in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) in UCAN CANDU (Deborah Marshall)

• Bringing Patients Back to the PROM (Nick Bansback)

2017 APERSU Annual Report

Click here to download the 2017 APERSU Annual Report for an update on APERSU's activities.

Annual Meeting 2016

2nd APERSU End-user Meeting, November 9-10, 2016, Matrix Hotel, Edmonton, AB

2016 APERSU Annual Report

Click here to download the 2016 APERSU Annual Report for an updates on APERSU's activities.

Annual Meeting 2015

1st APERSU End-user Meeting, October 20 – 21, 2015, Coast Canmore Hotel and Conference Centre, Canmore, AB