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Journal Articles/ Book Chapters

The following is a list of articles published by participants in the Alberta Ambassador Program:

  • Cutforth G, Peter A, Taenzer P. The Alberta Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Ambassador Program: The Development of a Contextually Relevant, Multidisciplinary Clinical Practice Guideline for Non-specific Low Back Pain: A Review. Physiotherapy Canada 2011, online date January 31, 2011. Abstract 
  • Scott NA, Moga C, Harstall C. Managing low back pain in the primary care setting: the know-do gap. Pain Res Manag. 2010 Nov-Dec;15(6):392-400. Abstract
  • Harstall C, Taenzer P, Angus DK, Moga C, Schuller T, Scott NA. Creating a multidisciplinary low back pain guideline: anatomy of a guideline adaptation process. J Eval Clin Pract. 2010 Sep 16. Abstract 
  • Scott NA, Moga C, Harstall C. Making the AGREE tool more user-friendly: the feasibility of a user guide based on Boolean operators. J Eval Clin Pract 2009 Dec;15(6):1061-1073. Abstract 
  • Taenzer P, Schopflocher D, Rashiq S, Harstall C. The Alberta Chronic Pain Ambassador Program. In: Rashiq S, Schopflocher D, Taenzer P, Jonsson E, editors. Chronic Pain: A Health Policy Perspective. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley Blackwell; 2008: p.255-72. More information: http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-3527323821.html
  • Taenzer P, Rashiq S, Schopflocher D, Barton P, Scott A, Moga C, Harstall C. Research Translation for Systematic Reviews into Community Practice: The Alberta HTA Chronic Pain Ambassador Program. In: McQuay HJ, Kalso E, Moore RA, editors. Systematic Reviews in Pain Research: Methodology Refined. (1st ed.), IASP Press, Seattle; 2008: Chapter 30. More information: Table of contents
  • Scott NA, Moga C, Barton P, Rashiq S, Schopflocher D, Taenzer P, Harstall C. Creating clinically relevant knowledge from systematic reviews: the challenges of knowledge translation. J Eval Clin Pract 2007 Aug;13(4):681-8.
  • Taenzer P, Harstall C, Rashiq S, Barton P, Schopflocher D.  Using an ambassador program to improve the management of chronic pain.  In: CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research. Evidence in action, acting on evidence. A casebook of health services and policy research knowledge translation stories, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa; 2006: p113-6. Available from: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/documents/ihspr_ktcasebook_e.pdf
  • Rashiq S, Barton P, Harstall C, Schopflocher D, Taenzer P, and the Alberta Ambassador Program Team.  The Alberta Ambassador Program: delivering Health Technology Assessment results to rural practitioners. BMC Med Educ 2006;6(21). Available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6920-6-21.pdf
  • Rashiq S. Chronic pain: What colour are the emperor's clothes? Can J Anesth 2005; 52:6; R1-R7.
    Available from: http://www.springerlink.com/content/k51g07j172476180/fulltext.pdf