Luke Turcotte
Luke Turcotte is a health services researcher in the Department of Health Sciences at Brock University. His research is centred around the development and application of health information systems to support clinical decision-making and improve the quality of care for older adults with complex health conditions across the continuum of care.
Roles
Assistant Professor
Health services research and evaluation among frail and medically complex older adult patient populations. Masters of Applied Gerontology program core faculty member.
Affiliate Investigator
Health services research for older adults in home care, long-term care, and post-acute care using clinical and administrative health databases.
Associate Fellow
Development of multidimensional clinical assessment instruments and decision-support algorithms in collaboration with international researchers and clinicians.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Collaboration with health system experts on research related to quality of care for older adults with complex health conditions across the continuum of care.
Senior Researcher & Methodologist
Development and evaluation of new methodologies to describe the health and well-being of Canadians. Organization-wide methodological support.
Projects
Dashboard that displays up to date long-term care home COVID-19 outbreak information with facility-level attribute data (e.g., profit status, chain size, design standard, quality of care).
Selected Publications
Turcotte, L. A., McArthur, C., Poss, J. W., Heckman, G., Mitchell, L., Morris, J., Foebel, A. D., & Hirdes, J. P. (2023). Long-Term Care Resident Health and Quality of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Synthesis Analysis of Canadian Institute for Health Information Data Tables. Health Services Insights, 16, 11786329231174745. https://doi.org/10.1177/11786329231174745
Turcotte, L. A., Heckman, G., Rockwood, K., Vetrano, D. L., Hébert, P., McIsaac, D. I., Rhynold, E., Mitchell, L., Mowbray, F. I., Larsen, R. T., & Hirdes, J. P. (2023). External validation of the hospital frailty risk score among hospitalised home care clients in Canada: A retrospective cohort study. Age and Ageing, 52(2), afac334. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac334
- Turcotte, L. A., Zalucky, A. A., Stall, N. M., Downar, J., Rockwood, K., Theou, O., McArthur, C., & Heckman, G. (2021). Baseline Frailty as a Predictor of Survival After Critical Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Older Adults Receiving Home Care in Ontario, Canada. Chest, 160(6), 2101–2111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2021.06.009
- Turcotte, L. A., Daniel, I., & Hirdes, J. P. (2020). The Post-Acute Delayed Discharge Risk Scale: Derivation and Validation With Ontario Alternate Level of Care Patients in Ontario Complex Continuing Care Hospitals. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 21(4), 538–544.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2019.12.022
- Turcotte, L. A., Poss, J., Fries, B., & Hirdes, J. P. (2019). An Overview of International Staff Time Measurement Validation Studies of the RUG-III Case-mix System. Health services insights, 12, 1178632919827926. https://doi.org/10.1177/1178632919827
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