About ACP CRIO
The Advance Care Planning Collaborative Research and Innovation Opportunities program
ACP CRIO* was a knowledge translation research program funded by Alberta Innovates from April 2013 to September 2019, under the Collaborative Research and Innovation Opportunities (CRIO) program. Our mandate was to study the Alberta Health Services-led implementation of a provincial policy on Advance Care Planning (ACP) and Goals of Care Designations (GCD). Our overarching research question focused on how to optimally implement widespread uptake of a formalized ACP framework across a large population and throughout a complex, multi-sector healthcare system. Our team includes academic researchers, healthcare providers, healthcare administrators, and public advisors, representing a range of fields including palliative care, geriatrics, family medicine, health economics, ethics, evaluation, and law.
*formally titled "Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care Alberta: a population based knowledge translation intervention study"
Our objectives
Partnering with Alberta Health Services and Covenant Health, we employed a knowledge-to-action framework in order to support a transformational change in practice and healthcare culture. Our goals were to identify the most effective methods to catalyse use of ACP, and to determine the impact on health resource utilization and clinical outcomes, through four Research Objectives:
Research Activities
Several research activities were conducted under each Objective: