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What are we about?

We aim to shape the future of research in concussion by bringing patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals together to identify and prioritize the top 10 unanswered questions about concussion.

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Who are we?

We are a team of patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers who are working together to identify research priorities in concussion. We want thoughts and ideas from people affected by concussion across Canada with different experiences and backgrounds.

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What is a PSP?

PSP stands for Priority Setting Partnership and is a project that aims to identify the top 10 questions that patients, caregivers and clinicians have about concussion in order to guide research funding.

Top 10

Selecting the Top 10

Survey #1 - Gathering Unanswered Questions 
In Spring 2021, we circulated the first survey where we asked participants to send in questions about concussion that they want researchers to answer.  In this phase of our project, 249 Canadians submitted 1,761 questions about the diagnosis, treatment, management, prognosis, and prevention of concussion. We read through all the responses, summarized them into questions and removed those that have already been answered by research. This resulted in 59 questions about concussion that we now want to prioritize.
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Survey #2 and Final Workshop - Prioritizing the Research Questions 
During the second phase of the project, 989 Canadians with concussions, their families, caregivers, and healthcare professionals completed a second survey that helped create a shortlist of 17 questions that they felt were the highest priority to be answered by research. This critical phase of the project gave those people with personal or professional experience with concussions the opportunity to have their say in setting the future direction of concussion research. A final priority setting workshop brought 24 Canadian concussion patients, caregivers, and clinicians from across the country together to exchange views and determined the final top 10 unanswered research questions.

The Top 10 Questions

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Steering Group

Meet the Team

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Katherine Cowan
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Martin Osmond
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Liz Legace 
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Quinn Correll
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Noah Silverberg
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Michelle Quinlan
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Shannon Bauman
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Mark Bayley
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Randene Duncan
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Phil Fait
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Erin Fox
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Isabelle Gagnon
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Kanika Gupta
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Ash Kolstad
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Rosemary Macklem
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Lyle McKellar
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Kinga Olszewska

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