Indigenous PCM | BC Patient-Centred Measurement

We will know that we have achieved cultural safety when the voice of

the people receiving our services tell us we have.

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FNHA’s Policy Statement on Cultural Safety and Humility

In March 2020, the Indigenous Advisory Committee (IAC) was established to advise the British Columbia Office of Patient-Centred Measurement and the British Columbia Patient-Centred Measurement (PCM) Steering Committee.

The IAC explores how Indigenous knowledge, experiences and ways of knowing can inform and decolonize current PCM processes (i.e., survey tool selection and development, data collection processes, analysis, reporting and dissemination and on Indigenous ways of knowing). Further, the IAC will help to prioritize PCM related matters impacting First Nations, Métis, and Inuit. Read our 2020-2022 Impact Report here.

With great humility, the OPCM acknowledges that until now, no such process existed to ensure Indigenous representation and leadership to lead to meaningful change in patient-centred measurement. The OPCM commits to ensuring this takes place to move towards decolonizing colonial methods and processes in patient-centred measurement.

The IAC will guide how PCM is conducted in British Columbia with Indigenous Peoples. IAC members will have reciprocal learning opportunities, individually and collectively, about existing PCM methods and the application of Indigenous methodologies to PCM. These learning opportunities may be presented through peers, networking, contributing to materials shared provincially, nationally and internationally, and where there is interest, to be involved in writing journal articles for publication to a broader audience.

To date the IAC has discussed and advised on many areas of PCM work including; development of a cultural safety module of survey questions, culturally safer approaches for survey item testing (via cognitive interviews), and report planning.

For more information about the development of questions addressing Indigenous Cultural Safety from the patient perspective click here.
Click here for expectations for the readers of BCPCM survey reports. The intent is for readers to contemplate the results presented in BCPCM reports in the appropriate context in advance of reviewing the scores.
For more information about Indigenous PCM in British Columbia, please contact us here.

Use of the citation below is expected when any of our BC Indigenous PCM work informs and/or is included in your publications, presentations, social media posts, etc. Thank you!

Morgan, J; Matthew, M; Thevarge, D; Marsden, N; Laliberte, N; Thomson, S; Gillis, T; Corscadden, L; Muller, M; Nourani, S; Cuthbertson, L; 2021; Fire Agreements: Decolonization and Indigenization of British Columbia's Indigenous Patient-Centred Measurement Advisory Committee's Terms of References; www.bcpcm.ca/indigenous-pcm

Our Indigenous Advisory Committee collaborated with Kwexata'lsp (Ovila Mailhot) Nlaka'pamux and Stó:lō Nation, on the development of our Indigenous PCM logo and the artistic representation of our Fire Agreements. Click the screenshot below to watch a short video of the artist’s explanation of the inspiration for his designs for our Indigenous Advisory Committee.

On October 20^th, 2023 we will be presenting with colleagues from Alberta, Manitoba and New Zealand at ISOQOL’s 30th Annual Conference in Calgary: The spectrum from Indigenous lens to Indigenous led people-centred measurement approaches: Whose perspectives are we missing?

More information & our slides can be found here.

Updated September 2023

Mark Matthew

Simpcw First Nation, IAC Co-Chair, Director of Indigenous Health, Health Quality BC

Stephen Thomson

Métis Citizen, IAC Co-Chair, Director, Health Governance, Métis Nation British Columbia

Jenny Morgan

Gitxsan First Nation, Lax Gibuu (Wolfclan) from the House of WiiMuk’willixw, Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Social Work, University of Victoria

Namaste Marsden

Wilp Gamlaxyeltxw, Lax Ganeda (Frog Clan), from Gitanyow

Nancy Laliberté

Nehiyaw iskwew/Métis, Senior Director, Systems Transformation, Indigenous Health, Provincial Health Services Authority

Tabatha Berggren

Métis Citizen, Manager of Health Research and Evaluation, Métis Nation British Columbia

Indigenous

We will know that we have achieved cultural safety when the voice of

the people receiving our services tell us we have.

For more information about the development of the IAC’s ‘Fire Agreements’ that serve as an example of how to decolonize and Indigenize the Terms of Reference of a committee click here.

Use of the citation below is expected when any of our BC Indigenous PCM work informs and/or is included in your publications, presentations, social media posts, etc. Thank you!

On October 20^th, 2023 we will be presenting with colleagues from Alberta, Manitoba and New Zealand at ISOQOL’s 30th Annual Conference in Calgary: The spectrum from Indigenous lens to Indigenous led people-centred measurement approaches: Whose perspectives are we missing?

More information & our slides can be found here.