Symptom tracking & management to improve cancer care
e-IMPAQc helps patients and caregivers at cancer centres across Quebec track and manage their physical and emotional symptoms and practical challenges and communicate these to their healthcare team using mobile technology. e-IMPAQc is not an electronic platform, but a complete symptom tracking and management program that can be housed on any compatible platform.
This website provides information about e-IMPAQc for patients, caregivers and health professionals.
What is e-IMPAQc?
e-IMPAQc stands for the Electronic Implementation of Patient- and caregiver-reported outcomes Across cancer centres in Quebec. e-IMPAQc is an electronic program for the systematic collection and assessment of patient- and caregiver-reported outcomes during cancer treatment. e-IMPAQc can be uploaded to any electronic platform and is currently available on Opal and DART.
Who is e-IMPAQc for?
Patients
Better understand and manage your physical and emotional symptoms and practical concerns related to cancer and cancer treatment to improve your overall health.
Caregivers
Evaluate how you feel physically and emotionally to improve your quality of life in your role as a caregiver of someone with cancer.
Healthcare professionals
Collaborate with your patients to provide quality care and improve outcomes.
Why use e-IMPAQc?
Increased understanding
Summaries based on your symptom tracking will help you better understand your condition and how it's affecting you.
Personalized resources
Recognizing your symptoms makes it possible to provide you with individualized educational material that can help you manage your symptoms.
Improved communication
Symptom reports let your healthcare team know how you're feeling and give them time to prepare for your visit.
Better outcomes
Research shows that recording and sharing symptoms with your healthcare team can improve your quality of life.
How does e-IMPAQc work?
Answer surveys
Complete questionnaires to track and evaluate your symptoms.
Access resources
Personalized education material is sent to you based on your responses to the questionnaires.
Communicate results
e-IMPAQc will quickly provide you and your oncologist with symptom reports, so that you both have the information before your next appointment.
Address symptoms
Use your appointment time to discuss your symptom reports and develop your treatment plan.
Answer surveys
Complete questionnaires to track and evaluate your symptoms.
Access resources
Personalized education material is sent to you based on your responses to the questionnaires.
Communicate results
e-IMPAQc will quickly provide you and your oncologist with symptom reports, so that you both have the information before your next appointment.
Address symptoms
Use your appointment time to discuss your symptom reports and develop your treatment plan.
About the e-IMPAQc team
We are a team of patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals and researchers from across Quebec passionate about patient- and family-centered cancer care working together to implement a state-of-the-art, real-world electronic program for detecting, monitoring, and managing physical, emotional, social, informational, practical and spiritual difficulties across the cancer trajectory. e-IMPAQc is led at St. Mary’s Hospital Research Centre.
Sylvie Lambert
Project lead
Rosanna Faria
Clinical lead
John Kildea
Opal co-lead
Tarek Hijal
Opal co-lead
Zeev Rosberger
Team member
Jane McCusker
Team member
Mona Magalhães
Research program manager
Ashley Kushneryk
Site coordinator supervisor
Available at participating hospitals
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