Sophie Dugas
Current Organizations / Institutes
The organizations/institutes from the scholar's latest article
Sophie Dugas has a total of 8 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Abraham Rudnick
Nova Scotia Operational Stress Injury Clinic, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dartmouth, NS B3B 1Y6, Canada
1 shared publication - Alex Kuo
Department of Health Information Science, Faculties of Human and Social Development, Victoria Campus, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
1 shared publication - Ernie Chang
Retired Physician and Independent Computer Scientist, Victoria, BC V9C 4B1, Canada
1 shared publication - Gracia Yunruo Dong
Human Biology Program, University of Toronto , Toronto, ON
1 shared publication - Jonas Bambi
Department of Health Information Science, Faculties of Human and Social Development, Victoria Campus, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
1 shared publication - Kehinde Olobatuyi
Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia Canada
1 shared publication
Latest Publications
- Open Access
Patterns of Service Utilization across the Full Continuum of Care: Using Patient Journeys to Assess Disparities in Access to Health Services
Healthcare organizations have a contractual obligation to the public to address population-level inequities to health services access and shed light on them. Various studies have focused on achieving equitable access to healthcare services for vulnerable patients. However, these studies do not provide a nuanced perspective based on the local reality across the full continuum of care. In previous work, graph topology was used to provide visual depictions of the dynamics of patients’ movement across a complex healthcare system. Using patients’ encounters data represented as a graph, this study expands on previous work and proposes a methodology to identify and quantify cohort-specific disparities in accessing healthcare services across the continuum of care. The result has demonstrated that a more nuanced approach to assessing access-to-care disparity is doable using patients’ patterns of service utilization from a longitudinal cross-continuum healthcare dataset. The proposed method can be used as part of a toolkit to support healthcare organizations that wish to structure their services to provide better care to their vulnerable populations based on the local realities. This provides a first step in addressing inequities for vulnerable patients in accessing healthcare services. However, additional steps need to be considered to fully address these inequities.
Open AccessPatterns of Service Utilization across the Full Continuum of Care: Using Patient Journeys to Assess Disparities in Access to Health Services
Healthcare organizations have a contractual obligation to the public to address population-level inequities to health services access and shed light on them. Various studies have focused on achieving equitable access to healthcare services for vulnerable patients. However, these studies do not provide a nuanced perspective based on the local reality across the full continuum of care. In previous work, graph topology was used to provide visual depictions of the dynamics of patients’ movement across a complex healthcare system. Using patients’ encounters data represented as a graph, this study expands on previous work and proposes a methodology to identify and quantify cohort-specific disparities in accessing healthcare services across the continuum of care. The result has demonstrated that a more nuanced approach to assessing access-to-care disparity is doable using patients’ patterns of service utilization from a longitudinal cross-continuum healthcare dataset. The proposed method can be used as part of a toolkit to support healthcare organizations that wish to structure their services to provide better care to their vulnerable populations based on the local realities. This provides a first step in addressing inequities for vulnerable patients in accessing healthcare services. However, additional steps need to be considered to fully address these inequities.