Patient Experiences and Outcomes

Publications authored by CHSPR faculty and staff from 2009 to the present are listed here. Older peer-reviewed publications are usually available from individual journals and can be searched for using PubMed. Older reports published by CHSPR (from 1973) are available from the UBC Library cIRcle database. If you cannot find a specific publication, please contact us.


Wong ST, Haggerty J. Measuring patient experiences in primary health care: a review and classification of items and scales used in publicly-available questionnaires.  Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; May 2013. Read more

Bryan S, Broesch J, Dalzell K, Davis JC, Dawes M, Doyle-Waters MM, Lewis SJ, McGrail KM, McGregor MJ, Murphy JM, Sawatzky R. What are the most effective ways to measure patient health outcomes of primary health care integration through PROM (Patient Reported Outcome Measurement) instruments? Vancouver (BC): Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation; Apr 2013. Read more

McGrail K, Bryan S, Davis J. Let's all go to the PROM: the case for routine patient-reported outcome measurement in Canadian healthcare. Healthc Pap. 2011;11(4):8-18. Read more

Schmid AA, Kroenke K, Hendrie HC, Bakas T, Sutherland JM, Williams LS. Poststroke depression and treatment effects on functional outcomes. Neurology. 2011 Mar 15;76(11):1000-5. Read more

Stubbs D, Krebs E, Bair M, Damush T, Wu J, Sutherland J, Kroenke K. Sex Differences in Pain and Pain-Related Disability among Primary Care Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain. Pain Med. 2010 Feb;11(2):232-9. Read more

Wong ST, Regan S. Patient perspectives on primary health care in rural communities: effects of geography on access, continuity and efficiency. Rural Remote Health. 2009 Jan-Mar;9(1):1142. Read more

Watson D, Peterson S, Black CD. In pursuit of quality: opportunities to improve patient experiences in British Columbian emergency departments. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Jan 2009. Read more

Wong ST, Seago JA, Keane D, Grumbach K. College students' perceptions of their experiences: what do minority students think? J Nurs Educ. 2008 Apr;47(4):190-5. Read more

Wong ST, Watson DE, Young E, Regan S. What do people think is important about primary healthcare? Healthc Policy. 2008 Feb;3(3):89-104. Read more

Wong ST, Peterson S, Regan S, Watson DE, Black C. Understanding British Columbians’ experiences with primary health care: developing a sector-specific survey. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Sept 2007. Read more

Watson DE, Mooney D, Peterson S. Patient experiences with ambulatory cancer care in British Columbia, 2005/06. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Mar 2007. Read more