Monday April 18, 2016 A success story of Best Practice Implementation in Canada The Spinal Cord Injury Knowledge Mobilization Network (SCI KMN) is a community of practice that has evolved out of a national best practice implementation effort that began in 2011. It is a network of 6 rehabilitation hospitals located in 3 provinces [...]
Monday November 9, 2015 Coming this Thursday: The PAR-QoL Webinar ** REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN!! ** Are you interested in measuring Quality of Life in spinal cord? If so, the PAR-QoL team invites you to attend a free Webinar that will be held on November 12th, 2015 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm EST. This webinar will provide information [...]
Upcoming: A Webinar by the PAR-QoL team! Are you interested in measuring Quality of Life in spinal cord? If so, the PAR-QoL team invites you to attend a Webinar that will be held on November 12th, 2015 at 12:00pm EST. This webinar will provide information about using the ParQoL website through the following objectives: [...]
Wednesday April 29, 2015 The PAR-QoL tool-kit was honored to have Dr. Jaimie Borisoff (Canada Research Chair in Rehabilitation Engineering Design - British Columbia Institute of Technology) participate in our Spring ‘Ask An Expert’ Spotlight event. This event allowed visitors to the site to pose Dr. Borisoff questions about his perspectives in the field of SCI [...]
Monday December 15, 2014 / Lundi, le 15 décembre 2014 New PAR-QoL Team Member – Dr. Krista Best / Nouvelle membre de l’équipe PAR-QoL – Dre Krista Best We would like to welcome the newest member to the PAR-QoL team, Dr. Krista Best. Dr. Best is a postdoctoral fellow at Université Laval and the Centre for [...]
Weds. Feb. 19. 2014 Dear Newsletter Subscribers, Have you had time to explore the resources on the Participation and Quality of Life (PAR-QoL) website? If you have, our Spinal Cord Research Team would appreciate your feedback! The goal of the study is to conduct a usability test of the PAR-QoL website with 100-200 clinicians and researchers [...]
Monday September 15, 2014 PAR-QoL Receives New Funding from the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) Education Foundation / PAR-QoL reçoit un nouveau financement de la part de la PVA Welcome back! We hope you all have had a good summer. The PAR-QoL Team is pleased to announce that we have received additional funding from [...]
Evaluation of the PAR-QoL Website - Stay Tuned for a Request for Feedback Welcome to the last PAR-QoL Newsletter of 2013! It has been an exciting year for the PAR-QoL Project. Our site is averaging approximately 5,000 visitors per month from across the world, and incorporated this newsletter feature this past year to bring [...]
Monday October 7, 2013 The PAR-QoL team is proud and excited to present an expert spotlight event with Dr. Brett Smith from Loughborough University, UK. During the month of October 2013, visitors to the PAR-QoL website can submit a question to Dr. Smith about spinal cord injury (SCI) and quality of life research to obtain his thoughts and perspectives on [...]
June 10, 2013 PAR-QoL Connects with Spinal Cord Essentials The PAR-QoL team is excited to announce that Spinal Cord Essentials has come to our website. Spinal Cord Essentials is a patient education initiative which aims help people through rehabilitation following spinal cord injury (SCI). The project currently consists of 70 handouts which are one to four [...]