Identifying Outcomes and Filling Informational Gaps in Liver Transplantation: Results of a Multi-Stakeholder Qualitative Study and Related Learnings

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Reorientation toward Value-Based Health Care (VBHC) at VGH has expanded collection of patient outcomes, but measurement and core outcome set (COS) design persistently lacks patient engagement. We designed a qualitative interview study in collaboration with the Liver Transplant Integrated Practice Unit at VGH to identify a comprehensive list of outcomes relevant to liver transplant patients, their caregivers, and allied health professionals. In this talk, we describe the seven outcome themes important to these stakeholder groups, as well as the implementation of a patient guide to improve stakeholder information access during the liver transplant process. This healthcare information project—a result of accessory findings from the original study regarding patient access to information resources and support structures—helps to put research into practice and demonstrates how broad stakeholder engagement can produce actionable learnings that improve patient experience.

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Don Griesdale, MD MPH

Critical Care Physician, Vancouver General Hospital
Associate Professor, Medicine | Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Director, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation,Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute

Don is an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician at Vancouver General Hospital and Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia. Following his clinical training, he completed a Masters of Public Health in Quantitative Methods from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2008. His clinical and academics areas of interest include neurocritical care of patients with traumatic brain injury and hypoxemic ischemic brain injury following cardiac arrest. He is an active member of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. He is an co-investigator with his research partner and Principle Investigator, Dr. Mypinder Sekhon, on a CIHR Project Grant to help delineate pathophysiologic phenotypes in patients with hypoxic ischemic brain injury. Collaborating with Dr. Penny Brasher, he is the Principal Investigator on a 2023 /2024 Grant-in-Aid from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada that will investigate the effect of VV-ECMO on cerebral blood flow in patients with ARDS.

Stephanie Chartier-Plante

Hepatobiliary and Transplant surgery, VGH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of General Surgery, UBC

Dr. Stephanie Chartier-Plante graduated from medical school at Laval University in Quebec City. She completed residency training first in family medicine with the Northern Rural program in Prince George BC and subsequently completed general surgery residency at UBC in 2015. She completed a fellowship in hepatobiliary surgery at UBC and went to Dallas to complete a solid organ transplant fellowship at the Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute at Baylor University Medical Center.
Dr. Chartier-Plante’s clinical focus is on liver transplant. She is also currently a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of General Surgery at UBC, and her academic interest includes quality improvement for liver transplant patients.

Maya Vasdani

Research Assistant
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation

Maya Vasdani is a medical social scientist trained in qualitative approaches to health research. She earned her MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and is broadly interested in using patient narratives to explore new perspectives on medical research. As a Research Assistant at C2E2, she works on similar topics as they relate to patient, provider, and caregiver experiences with liver transplantation.

Kira Dinim, BA

Student Librarian
UBC School of Information
The University of British Columbia Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation

Kira is a second year Masters of Library and Information Studies student at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information. She holds a Bachelors in English Language and Literature also from UBC, where she focused on the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine and explored the connections between gender and language. In her Master’s degree, Kira is working towards becoming a health sciences librarian; she has a specific interest in the emerging role of AI in health science research, in health mis- and dis-information, and in supporting information access for patients through patient-centred care and service. At the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, she is building an accessible information resource for liver transplant patients, as well as assisting with general research and workshop presentations in her role as student librarian.