What is SPOR?
What are the different elements of SPOR?
What is patient-oriented research?
The Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) is an initiative of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. It is about ensuring that the right patient receives the right intervention at the right time. Partners at federal and provincial levels have joined together to support SPOR, and represent a variety of roles including patients, researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and others.
SPOR will foster evidence-informed healthcare to improve quality, accountability, and accessibility of care. More information about SPOR can be found here.
What are the different elements of SPOR?
There are six core elements of SPOR that work to enhance patient-orientated research:
- Networks
- SUPPORT Units
- Developing capacity
- Improving Canada’s competitiveness in delivering clinical trials
- Patient Engagement
- SPOR Evidence Alliance
SPOR Networks are pan-Canadian collaborative research networks involving patients, researchers, health care professionals, policy makers, and other health partners. Each network focuses on a specific priority health area, such as chronic disease, primary care, and youth and adolescent mental health.
The SPOR Primary Care Research Network’s mission is to establish and grow provincial and territorial practice-based research and learning networks and a primary health care information system that will facilitate research to spread and scale innovations in primary health care across the country.
Detailed information about SPOR Networks can be found here.
What is patient-oriented research?
Patient-oriented research is focused on priorities that are important to patients and produces information that can be used to improve healthcare practice, treatments and policies. Ultimately, patient-oriented research is aimed at achieving benefits that matter to patients including:
- Improved health
- Improved access to the healthcare system
- The right treatment at the right time
- Being an active and informed partner in healthcare
- Quality of life that is tied to patient-oriented outcomes
- Improving cost-effectiveness of the healthcare system
Read more SPOR patient engagement information and access resources here.
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