Whitney Berta
Biographic Data
| ID | 2486685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Whitney Berta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Whitney |
| FAMILY NAME | Berta |
| SIGNATURE | BERTA W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9934-8450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Where we work matters
This cross-disciplinary review highlights a number of important associations between the physical work environment, workers, and their work across literatures and across settings. While our current understanding of the interplay amongst work attitudes, environment, and performance is far from nuanced and has been delimited by conceptual differences and methodological deficits, what is clear from this review is that where we work matters to indivi…
How cultural safety is conceptualized, operationalized & evaluated in health services systems
Cultural safety is a system-level concept that is essential to realizing the transformation of health services systems needed to correct persistent health inequities in colonial contexts. A sizeable proportion of research over the past two decades has conflated cultural safety with the complementary concept of cultural competence, and conceptualized it as an individual-level phenomenon, to the detriment of advancing our understanding and realizat…
Assessing the impact of day programs on individuals living with dementia and their family/friend caregivers (Aida-DemCare)
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT06496945
Learning from Canadian Stroke Rehabilitation Care Clinicians
Introduction: Clinicians working in stroke rehabilitation settings care for a high proportion of patients with complex care needs. The average patient recovering from a stroke has a minimum of two co-morbidities and a range of psychological and socio-economic needs (Gallacher et al., 2019; Schaink et al., 2014). The care trajectories of these “complex” patients usually deviate from standard practices and they require customized care. There is lim…
Navigating the Virtual Landscape
With the COVID-19 pandemic halting all in-person research in March 2020, many researchers adopted virtual methods to continue their work amid this global crisis. As the pandemic persisted and the safety of participants and researchers remained a priority, virtual research grew in popularity for qualitative researchers. This in turn led to methodological insights on the application and advantages of conducting qualitative research using virtual me…
Optimizing the design and implementation of question prompt lists to support person‐centred care
Seniors Campuses – Integrating Mechanisms for Health, Housing and Social Care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
How to identify, incorporate and report patient preferences in clinical guidelines
Application of an Evaluation Framework for Extra-Organizational Communities of Practice
Communities of practice (CoPs) are groups of people who work together on an ongoing basis and share knowledge and expertise. CoPs exist both within and outside of organizations, although extra-organizational CoPs have received less evaluation attention. The primary objective of this study was to assess the applicability of a multi-level, multiple-value evaluation framework for extra-organizational CoPs. Qualitative interviews were conducted with …
Assessing Factors that Influence the Implementation of Technologies Enabling Integrated Care Delivery for Older Adults with Complex Needs
Advancing methods for health priority setting practice through the contribution of systems theory
Caring for Caregivers
Introduction: Even with international consensus that carers play a crucial role in supporting high-needs populations and contribute to formal health system sustainability, the academic and policy literature offers inconclusive evidence to guide how to support carers to ensure their resilience.Theory and Methods: This research used a convergent mixed model parallel design consisting of three main research phases. The theory of social capital was u…
Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) in health care
BACKGROUND: Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) refers to collaboration between researchers and decision-makers. While advocated as an approach for enhancing the relevance and use of research, IKT is challenging and inconsistently applied. This study sought to inform future IKT practice and research by synthesizing studies that empirically evaluated IKT and identifying knowledge gaps. METHODS: We performed a scoping review. We searched MEDLINE…
Understanding whole systems change in health care
Our study responds to calls for theory-driven approaches to studying innovation diffusion processes in health care. While most research on diffusion in health care is situated at the service delivery level, we study innovations and associated processes that have diffused to the system level, and refer to work on complex adaptive systems and whole systems change to guide our work. Systemlevel diffusion not only involves the spread of innovations a…
Home care or long-term care? Setting the balance of care in urban and rural Northwestern Ontario, Canada
The objective of the study was to determine the extent to which community care packages could be provided at a lower cost than facility-based long-term care (LTC) for 864 individuals on the LTC waiting list in urban and rural parts of Northwestern Ontario, Canada. A sequential mixed methods design was used entailing a retrospective chart review, the formation of case vignettes, the creation of community care packages with an 'expert panel' of car…
Spanning the know-do gap
Spanning the know-do gap
Advancing methods for health priority setting practice through the contribution of systems theory
Home care or long-term care? Setting the balance of care in urban and rural Northwestern Ontario, Canada
The objective of the study was to determine the extent to which community care packages could be provided at a lower cost than facility-based long-term care (LTC) for 864 individuals on the LTC waiting list in urban and rural parts of Northwestern Ontario, Canada. A sequential mixed methods design was used entailing a retrospective chart review, the formation of case vignettes, the creation of community care packages with an 'expert panel' of car…
Understanding whole systems change in health care
Our study responds to calls for theory-driven approaches to studying innovation diffusion processes in health care. While most research on diffusion in health care is situated at the service delivery level, we study innovations and associated processes that have diffused to the system level, and refer to work on complex adaptive systems and whole systems change to guide our work. Systemlevel diffusion not only involves the spread of innovations a…
Spanning the know-do gap
Home care or long-term care? Setting the balance of care in urban and rural Northwestern Ontario, Canada
The objective of the study was to determine the extent to which community care packages could be provided at a lower cost than facility-based long-term care (LTC) for 864 individuals on the LTC waiting list in urban and rural parts of Northwestern Ontario, Canada. A sequential mixed methods design was used entailing a retrospective chart review, the formation of case vignettes, the creation of community care packages with an 'expert panel' of car…
Understanding whole systems change in health care
Our study responds to calls for theory-driven approaches to studying innovation diffusion processes in health care. While most research on diffusion in health care is situated at the service delivery level, we study innovations and associated processes that have diffused to the system level, and refer to work on complex adaptive systems and whole systems change to guide our work. Systemlevel diffusion not only involves the spread of innovations a…
Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) in health care
BACKGROUND: Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) refers to collaboration between researchers and decision-makers. While advocated as an approach for enhancing the relevance and use of research, IKT is challenging and inconsistently applied. This study sought to inform future IKT practice and research by synthesizing studies that empirically evaluated IKT and identifying knowledge gaps. METHODS: We performed a scoping review. We searched MEDLINE…
Caring for Caregivers
Introduction: Even with international consensus that carers play a crucial role in supporting high-needs populations and contribute to formal health system sustainability, the academic and policy literature offers inconclusive evidence to guide how to support carers to ensure their resilience.Theory and Methods: This research used a convergent mixed model parallel design consisting of three main research phases. The theory of social capital was u…
Assessing Factors that Influence the Implementation of Technologies Enabling Integrated Care Delivery for Older Adults with Complex Needs
Advancing methods for health priority setting practice through the contribution of systems theory
How to identify, incorporate and report patient preferences in clinical guidelines
Application of an Evaluation Framework for Extra-Organizational Communities of Practice
Communities of practice (CoPs) are groups of people who work together on an ongoing basis and share knowledge and expertise. CoPs exist both within and outside of organizations, although extra-organizational CoPs have received less evaluation attention. The primary objective of this study was to assess the applicability of a multi-level, multiple-value evaluation framework for extra-organizational CoPs. Qualitative interviews were conducted with …
Seniors Campuses – Integrating Mechanisms for Health, Housing and Social Care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Optimizing the design and implementation of question prompt lists to support person‐centred care
Navigating the Virtual Landscape
With the COVID-19 pandemic halting all in-person research in March 2020, many researchers adopted virtual methods to continue their work amid this global crisis. As the pandemic persisted and the safety of participants and researchers remained a priority, virtual research grew in popularity for qualitative researchers. This in turn led to methodological insights on the application and advantages of conducting qualitative research using virtual me…
Assessing the impact of day programs on individuals living with dementia and their family/friend caregivers (Aida-DemCare)
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT06496945
Learning from Canadian Stroke Rehabilitation Care Clinicians
Introduction: Clinicians working in stroke rehabilitation settings care for a high proportion of patients with complex care needs. The average patient recovering from a stroke has a minimum of two co-morbidities and a range of psychological and socio-economic needs (Gallacher et al., 2019; Schaink et al., 2014). The care trajectories of these “complex” patients usually deviate from standard practices and they require customized care. There is lim…
Where we work matters
This cross-disciplinary review highlights a number of important associations between the physical work environment, workers, and their work across literatures and across settings. While our current understanding of the interplay amongst work attitudes, environment, and performance is far from nuanced and has been delimited by conceptual differences and methodological deficits, what is clear from this review is that where we work matters to indivi…
How cultural safety is conceptualized, operationalized & evaluated in health services systems
Cultural safety is a system-level concept that is essential to realizing the transformation of health services systems needed to correct persistent health inequities in colonial contexts. A sizeable proportion of research over the past two decades has conflated cultural safety with the complementary concept of cultural competence, and conceptualized it as an individual-level phenomenon, to the detriment of advancing our understanding and realizat…
Medicine (8 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (5 works) · Knowledge management (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works)