Annette O'Connor

Biographie

Au niveau international, elle a contribué au Centre de collaboration Cochrane, elle a participé à un programme d'échange en Chine et elle s'occupe actuellement d'une initiative au Chili visant à favoriser les processus décisionnels fondés sur les résultats chez les professionnels et les clients.

Annette O'Connor a reçu de nombreux prix, entre autres: en 1986 le JC Laidlaw Prize for Outstanding Research de la faculté de médecine de l'Université de Toronto, en 1988 le Bristol Myers Award pour le meilleur projet de recherche en soins infirmiers d'oncologie, et pendant un total de quinze années, des prix en tant que scientifique de carrière (Career Scientist Awards) du Conseil de recherches médicales du Canada (1990-1995) et du ministère de la Santé de l'Ontario (1995-2005).

Intérêts de recherche

• Élaboration et évaluation d'aides à la décision
• Élaboration et mise à l'essai de méthodes de soutien et d'évaluation des prises de décisions
• Éducation des cliniciens et professionnels de la santé et des clients en matière de partage des prises de décisions
• Modèles de conflits décisionnels
  

Publications

• O’Connor, A. Validation of a decisional conflict scale. Medical Decision Making.15(1):25-30, 1995. Scale which has become a strandard for evaluation.
• O'Connor, A., & O'Brien-Pallas, L.L. "Decisional Conflict", in G.K. McFarland and E.A. McFarlane (eds), Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention (Toronto: The C.V. Mosby Company, 1989) pp. 573-588. Conceptual framework of decision support as a clinical skill.
• O’Connor A, Tugwell P, Wells G, Elmslie T, Jolly E, Hollingworth G, McPherson R, Bunn H, Graham I, Drake E. A decision aid for women considering hormone therapy after menopause: Decision support framework and evaluation. Patient Education and Counselling. 33(3):267-279, March 1998. Widely used conceptual framework for managing patients’ decisional conflict.                      
• O’Connor A, Tugwell P, Wells G, Elmslie T, Jolly E, Hollingworth G, McPherson R, Drake E, Hopman W, MacKenzie T. Randomized trial of a portable, self-administered decision aid for post-menopausal women considering long-term preventive hormone therapy. Medical Decision Making. 18(3):295-303, 1998. Randomized trial of patient decision aids using Ottawa approach.
• Man-Son-Hing M, Laupacis A, O’Connor A, Biggs J, Drake E, Yetisir E, Hart R & SPAF Investigators. A Patient Decision Aid Regarding Antithrombotic Therapy for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation. A Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA 282(8):737-743, 1999.Randomized trial of patient decision aids using Ottawa approach.
• O’Connor AM, Fiset V, DeGrasse C, Graham I, Evans W, Stacey D, Laupacis A, Tugwell P. Decision aids for patients considering options affecting cancer outcomes: Evidence of efficacy and policy implications. Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs 25:67-80, 1999. Methods in developing and evaluating patient decision aids.
• O’Connor, A., Llewellyn-Thomas, H., Sawka, C., Pinfold, S., To, T., Harrison, D. Physicians’ opinions about decision aids for patients considering systemic adjuvant therapy for axillary-node negative breast cancer. Patient Education and Counseling. 30:143-153, 1997.First large scale survey of physician’s attitudes toward decision aids.
• O’Connor A, Rostom A, Fiset V, Tetroe J, Entwistle V, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Holmes-Rovner M, Barry M, Jones J. Decision aids for patients facing health treatment or screening decisions: A Cochrane systematic review. British Medical Journal 319(7212):731-734, 1999. First systematic review of patient decision aids.
• O’Connor AM, Drake ER, Wells GA, Tugwell P, Laupacis A, Elmslie T. A survey of the decision-making needs of Canadians faced with complex health decisions. Health Expectations, 6(2):97-109, 2003. First national survey of a population’s decision needs for complex health care decisions.
• Stacey D, O’Connor A, Graham I, Pomey MP. Randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of an intervention to implement evidence-based patient decision support in a nursing call centre. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 2006; 12:410-415. First trial evaluating the process of decision support for values-sensitive decisions provided by call center nurses.
• Elwyn G, O'Connor A, Stacey D, Volk R, Edwards A, Coulter A, Thomson R, Barratt A, Barry M, Bernstein S, Butow P, Clarke A, Entwistle V, Feldman-Stewart D, Holmes-Rovner M, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Moumjid N, Mulley A, Ruland C, Sepucha K, Sykes A, Whelan T, The International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS)Collaboration. Developing a quality criteria framework for patient decision aids: online international Delphi consensus process. British Medical Journal. 2006 Aug 26;333(7565):417. First international standards for developing/evaluating patient decision aids.
• O’Connor A, Wennberg J, Légaré F, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Moulton B, Sepucha K, Sodano A, Staples King J. Towards the Tipping Point: Accelerating the diffusion of decision aids that help patients to weigh benefits versus risks. Health Affairs 2007; 26(3). Policy paper on implementing patient decision aids.

Liens utiles*

• http://www.ohri.ca/profiles/o'connor.asp
• http://www.ohri.ca/decisionaid/

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