Table 1:
Characteristics of the 33 evidence-based innovations reported by 11 teams
| Type of innovation | Scalability ranking* | No. of scalability assessment criteria met† | Reported aim(s) of innovation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health intervention | High | 16 | Increase access to primary health care for people/populations that are underserved by, and struggle to connect with, traditional primary health care services; improve coordination and collaboration of primary health care service providers when providing care |
| Health intervention | High | 14 | Multifaceted interprofessional community-based self-management program for older adults with diabetes and multiple chronic conditions |
| Health intervention | High | 14 | Introduce innovative team work for the management of patients with multimorbidity |
| Health intervention | High | 14 | Enhance the new patient’s capacity to access the clinic and understand how it functions |
| Health intervention | High | 13 | Improve diabetes prevention and management by leveraging existing resources |
| Health intervention | High | 13 | Interprofessional community-based self-management program for older adults with vascular conditions and multiple chronic conditions |
| Health intervention | High | 13 | Actionable information on primary care for key stakeholders; sustainable performance portrait (through ongoing funding); innovation through information to stakeholders |
| Health intervention | High | 13 | Reduce the impact of vascular disease on the health of Canadians |
| Health intervention | High | 12 | Integrate chronic disease prevention and management by a team in primary care practice |
| Health intervention | High | 12 | Develop knowledge, skills and abilities to work with primary care practices to support people experiencing social barriers in reaching community health and social resources |
| Health intervention | High | 11 | Identify patients at increased risk for breast and colorectal cancer and personalize screening and management; help patients with breast cancer make treatment decisions |
| Health intervention | High | 11 | Integrated approach for chronic diseases |
| Health intervention | High | 11 | Improve communication between primary care providers and cancer specialists; improve continuity of care among patients with cancer |
| Health intervention | High | 11 | Type of patient referrals, navigation services provided, community health and social resource needs |
| Health intervention | High | 11 | Provide rural remote primary care |
| Health intervention | High | 10 | Toolkit to support caregivers of older adults with dementia and multiple chronic conditions with changes they are experiencing |
| Health intervention | Medium | 8 | Ensure meaningful engagement and participation of people with lived experience in the research process, and ensure that people with lived experience are adequately compensated for their time and energy devoted to the research |
| Health intervention | Medium | 5 | Explore how people might use publicly reported primary care information through a series of citizen-patient deliberations in 3 Canadian provinces |
| Health intervention | Medium | 4 | Lead to awareness among allied health care professionals and policy shifts in health care systems regarding mental health care for youth and support for caregivers |
| Health intervention | Low | 1 | Present the clinical cancer system and experiences of patients with breast and colorectal cancer in Canada through synthesis maps to be used as knowledge-translation tools |
| Health intervention | Low | 0 | Profile Canadian initiatives aimed at improving continuity of care between primary care providers and cancer specialists |
| Analytical method | High | 12 | Piloted a practice-based automated patient survey system by telephone or email with consenting patients |
| Analytical method | Medium | 9 | Comparability of health administrative data indicator definitions across provinces |
| Analytical method | Medium | 6 | Gather narratives/stories of youth mental health journeys from multivocal perspectives |
| Analytical method | Medium | 5 | Use analytical modelling to support children and youth with mental health conditions |
| Conceptual framework | High | 13 | Enable health care providers to implement integrated care for people with complex health needs |
| Conceptual framework | High | 10 | Inform implementation of patient-centred interventions to improve care of patients with multimorbidity |
| Conceptual framework | Medium | 8 | Support innovation and transformation in First Nations health |
| Conceptual framework | Medium | 6 | Understand mental health from a First Nations perspective |
| Measure | Medium | 9 | Identify people with multimorbidity in primary care |
| Measure | Medium | 8 | Assess the integration, coordination and transitions of care |
| Measure | Medium | 6 | Assess the correlations of sex and gender with patient outcomes |
| Research capacity | High | 10 | Build research capacity |
*
Scalability ranking groups are based on hierarchical cluster analysis.
†
Range 0–16.