Sara Shearkhani
Biographic Data
| ID | 6740652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Shearkhani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Shearkhani |
| SIGNATURE | SHEARKHANI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8412-8831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Quantitative Evaluation of An Integrated Care Approach to Address Capacity Issues at a Community Hospital
Background: Hospitals face significant challenges during winter due to the seasonal influx of patients with illnesses such as influenza and COVID-19, a phenomenon known as the "Winter Surge." East Toronto Health Partners, in their efforts to build an integrated care system across settings, aimed to address this issue by facilitating early discharges and supporting patients' transitions from hospital to home through a collaborative initiative call…
Implementation and Evaluation Capacity Building
Background: This presentation is about engaging patients and caregivers in the implementation and evaluation of integrated healthcare interventions. Specifically, we will focus on the co-creation of program theories of change to guide the implementation and evaluation process. The use of theories of change ensures “work as imagined” is as close as possible to “work as done,” thereby setting the program and people involved up for success. It also …
Citizen-Researchers in Action
Background: Our project is a collaboration among community members, a hospital, and community organizations aimed at advancing health equity within historically underserved communities. By training community members as citizen-researchers, we conduct needs assessments that inform priority setting and resource allocation. We use mixed methods to evaluate our approach and partnership through process and outcome evaluations.Our audience is healthcar…
An Integrated Care Approach to Health Equity Data Collection and Use
Background: Inequities in healthcare have consistently been demonstrated to impact the health of patient populations. The East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP), a collection of more than 00 cross-sectional care delivery organizations in Ontario, Canada, have committed to addressing health inequities. In this study, we sought to understand how organizations within the ETHP define health equity and equity-seeking populations, how they currently colle…
Evaluation Capacity Building
This workshop is about engaging patients in evaluation methods, specifically developing program theories to focus on and guide evaluations. The use of theories in evaluations helps to understand why a program is having an impact and what could be done to promote results or scale and spread. Using program theories when evaluating integrated care initiatives, shows how the intervention is expected to produce its results. The use of these tools help…
Implementation and Evaluation of Innovation in Integrated Care
Health system learning is an iterative process. The six phases of a learning health system (LHS) are problem identification, design, implementation, evaluation, modification, and dissemination. In theory, evaluation is supposed to inform design and implementation and in turn implementation process and modification as the direct result of the evaluation endeavour set the direction for future evaluation. In other words, evaluation and implementatio…
Evaluating an Integrated Local System Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The pandemic was a catalyst for change in East Toronto that accelerated existing initiatives to achieve integrated care. The East Toronto experience may serve as a useful guide for other emerging integrated care systems
Utilizing Community Health Ambassadors to improve Covid-19 vaccine uptake in equity priority neighborhoods in Toronto, Canada
East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP) is comprised of 100+ health and social organizations, with a leadership council consisting of patient/caregivers and six anchor organizations representing the continuum of care. During the pandemic ETHP implemented a Community Health Ambassador (CHA) Model to increase access to COVID19 vaccinations in underserved neighborhoods through health promotion activities and referral to COVID19 outreach Centers (CoCs). …
Evaluation Capacity Building for Integrated Care Models in Practice
Quality and timely evaluation is key in creating a sustainable integrated care; however, it requires resources, expertise, and capacity building. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) is the process of improving an organization’s capacity to conduct rapid cycle evaluations by building knowledge and skills within the organisation. The process involves behavioral changes and could enhance collective capability to generate evidence for informed decisio…
Using a Learning Health System Approach to Evaluating an Integrated Model of Care in East Toronto
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
Using a Learning Health System Approach to Evaluate an Integrated Model of Care in East Toronto
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
Developing capacity for internal evaluation of integrated 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 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
A local system response to Covid19 Pandemic
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 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Informal Caregiving
Introduction: Informal caregivers are family, friends, and neighbors who provide assistance to people in need of care without pay. Caregivers play a critical role in patients’ care. Care provided by informal caregivers is often seen as a lower cost substitute to formal care and their contributions are assumed to take strain off the care system. Caregivers, however, report significant consequences such as a decline in their health and a higher use…
An alternate level of care plan
Our findings outline ways to meaningfully engage patients and caregivers during a delayed hospital discharge. Combining this with a minimal basket of services can potentially facilitate a better care experience and outcomes for patients, their care providers and families
Integrated comprehensive care- bundled care and funding
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)
Measuring Integrated Care’s Reliance on Caregiver Support
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)
Utilizing Community Health Ambassadors to improve Covid-19 vaccine uptake in equity priority neighborhoods in Toronto, Canada
East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP) is comprised of 100+ health and social organizations, with a leadership council consisting of patient/caregivers and six anchor organizations representing the continuum of care. During the pandemic ETHP implemented a Community Health Ambassador (CHA) Model to increase access to COVID19 vaccinations in underserved neighborhoods through health promotion activities and referral to COVID19 outreach Centers (CoCs). …
Measuring Integrated Care’s Reliance on Caregiver Support
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)
Measuring Integrated Care’s Reliance on Caregiver Support
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)
Integrated comprehensive care- bundled care and funding
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)
An alternate level of care plan
Our findings outline ways to meaningfully engage patients and caregivers during a delayed hospital discharge. Combining this with a minimal basket of services can potentially facilitate a better care experience and outcomes for patients, their care providers and families
Informal Caregiving
Introduction: Informal caregivers are family, friends, and neighbors who provide assistance to people in need of care without pay. Caregivers play a critical role in patients’ care. Care provided by informal caregivers is often seen as a lower cost substitute to formal care and their contributions are assumed to take strain off the care system. Caregivers, however, report significant consequences such as a decline in their health and a higher use…
Using a Learning Health System Approach to Evaluating an Integrated Model of Care in East Toronto
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
Using a Learning Health System Approach to Evaluate an Integrated Model of Care in East Toronto
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
Developing capacity for internal evaluation of integrated 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 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
A local system response to Covid19 Pandemic
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 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Implementation and Evaluation of Innovation in Integrated Care
Health system learning is an iterative process. The six phases of a learning health system (LHS) are problem identification, design, implementation, evaluation, modification, and dissemination. In theory, evaluation is supposed to inform design and implementation and in turn implementation process and modification as the direct result of the evaluation endeavour set the direction for future evaluation. In other words, evaluation and implementatio…
Evaluating an Integrated Local System Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The pandemic was a catalyst for change in East Toronto that accelerated existing initiatives to achieve integrated care. The East Toronto experience may serve as a useful guide for other emerging integrated care systems
Utilizing Community Health Ambassadors to improve Covid-19 vaccine uptake in equity priority neighborhoods in Toronto, Canada
East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP) is comprised of 100+ health and social organizations, with a leadership council consisting of patient/caregivers and six anchor organizations representing the continuum of care. During the pandemic ETHP implemented a Community Health Ambassador (CHA) Model to increase access to COVID19 vaccinations in underserved neighborhoods through health promotion activities and referral to COVID19 outreach Centers (CoCs). …
Evaluation Capacity Building for Integrated Care Models in Practice
Quality and timely evaluation is key in creating a sustainable integrated care; however, it requires resources, expertise, and capacity building. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) is the process of improving an organization’s capacity to conduct rapid cycle evaluations by building knowledge and skills within the organisation. The process involves behavioral changes and could enhance collective capability to generate evidence for informed decisio…
Citizen-Researchers in Action
Background: Our project is a collaboration among community members, a hospital, and community organizations aimed at advancing health equity within historically underserved communities. By training community members as citizen-researchers, we conduct needs assessments that inform priority setting and resource allocation. We use mixed methods to evaluate our approach and partnership through process and outcome evaluations.Our audience is healthcar…
An Integrated Care Approach to Health Equity Data Collection and Use
Background: Inequities in healthcare have consistently been demonstrated to impact the health of patient populations. The East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP), a collection of more than 00 cross-sectional care delivery organizations in Ontario, Canada, have committed to addressing health inequities. In this study, we sought to understand how organizations within the ETHP define health equity and equity-seeking populations, how they currently colle…
Evaluation Capacity Building
This workshop is about engaging patients in evaluation methods, specifically developing program theories to focus on and guide evaluations. The use of theories in evaluations helps to understand why a program is having an impact and what could be done to promote results or scale and spread. Using program theories when evaluating integrated care initiatives, shows how the intervention is expected to produce its results. The use of these tools help…
A Quantitative Evaluation of An Integrated Care Approach to Address Capacity Issues at a Community Hospital
Background: Hospitals face significant challenges during winter due to the seasonal influx of patients with illnesses such as influenza and COVID-19, a phenomenon known as the "Winter Surge." East Toronto Health Partners, in their efforts to build an integrated care system across settings, aimed to address this issue by facilitating early discharges and supporting patients' transitions from hospital to home through a collaborative initiative call…
Implementation and Evaluation Capacity Building
Background: This presentation is about engaging patients and caregivers in the implementation and evaluation of integrated healthcare interventions. Specifically, we will focus on the co-creation of program theories of change to guide the implementation and evaluation process. The use of theories of change ensures “work as imagined” is as close as possible to “work as done,” thereby setting the program and people involved up for success. It also …
Health care (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (7 works) · Integrated care (7 works) · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Library science (5 works)