Background: Access to specialty care remains a major challenge in the Canadian health
care system. Electronic consultation (eConsult) services allow primary care providers to seek …

Public health authorities have been alarmed by the progressive rise in rates of Caesarean
section in Canada, approaching one birth in three in several provinces. We aimed therefore to …

Background: Canadian health funding currently prioritizes scaling up for evidence-based
primary care innovations, but not all teams prepare for scaling up. We explored scalability …

Background eConsult is a model of asynchronous communication connecting primary care
providers to specialists to discuss patient care. This study aims to analyze the scaling-up …

Objective To examine the process of implementing an electronic consultation (eConsult)
service and evaluate its impact along key metrics outlined by the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption…

… Maxine Dumas-Pilon contributed to the data collection for one of the teams involved in
the collaborative, and reviewed and edited the manuscript. Neil Drimer and Christine Kirvan …

Background Canada has been referred to as the land of ‘perpetual pilot projects’. Effective
innovations often remain small in scale, with limited impact on health systems. Several …

Background: Effective healthcare innovations are often not scaled up beyond their initial
local context. Lack of practical knowledge on how to move from local innovations to large-…

… Mylaine Breton, Maxine Dumas-Pilon and Marie-Josée Campbell … Maxine Dumas-Pilon
and Marie-Josée Campbell designed the quality improvement project. Maxine Dumas-Pilon and …

Background: Scaling effective primary care innovations to benefit more people is of interest
to decision makers. However, we know little about how promising innovations are being …