Care Communication During Disasters
Communication in Disasters to Support Families with Children with Medical Complexity and Special Healthcare Needs: A Rapid Scoping Review
Project Status:Complete
Knowledge User(s)
BC Children's Hospital, Canuck Place Children's Hospice
Patient/Public Partner(s)
Tayaba Khan, Michael Scott
Collaborator(s)
Esther Lee
Funding Source(s)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance
Project Objectives
To determine how the health system communicates with families of children having complex medical conditions during times of disaster or crisis.
Research Approach
Rapid Scoping Review
Project Lead(s)
Craig Mitton
Dr. Mitton is a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation. Dr. Mitton’s research is focused on the application of health economics to impact health policy and to inform clinical practice. He has worked extensively with health authorities in numerous countries on the development and implementation of priority setting and resource allocation processes.
He is the lead author on a book titled “The Priority Setting Toolkit: a guide to the use of economics in health care priority setting” and is the lead or co-author on more than 170 peer reviewed journal articles. In addition, he has delivered over 200 presentations across many different countries and regularly runs workshops and short courses on health economics and health care priority setting.
In 2015, he was awarded a Killam Teaching Prize from the University of British Columbia.
Craig Mitton
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
Dr. Mitton is a Professor in the School of Population...