Research

Deer Lodge Centre (DLC) welcomes researchers, in all fields, to take part in the resources, skills and other opportunities that are available for scientific inquiry to help build the future of Deer Lodge Centre. Our goal is to support and encourage research that contributes to one or more of the following areas of our strategic plan:

• Enhance the client / family experience
• Improve the quality of client services
• Nurture potential and explore possibilities for clients/family/staff
• Improve patient flow
• Enhance partnerships with clients / families / health providers and the community
• Promote dignity and respect

Research at DLC is coordinated through the provincial RITHIM Harmony program and DLC Research Committee. Our goal is to ensure efficient access for researchers, support projects relevant to DLC’s strategic operating goals, and promote the transfer of knowledge from research to applied clinical and non-clinical practices.

RITHIM Research Approval and Application Process

Use the interactive tool to determine:

• If your project is considered research
• If your research requires ethics board approval
• If your research project is considered health research under the jurisdiction of, and requires submission to, RITHIM

Once it has been determined that your project is under RITHIM jurisdiction, you can submit your application through RITHIM Harmony. Once received by the RITHIM team, your application will be routed for ethics, privacy, and health institutional assessment review based on the information contained in the application.

Please note the following:

1. Incomplete submissions will cause a delay in receiving Deer Lodge Centre Approval.
2. Research requests may be considered based on how they align with the following area(s) of the Deer Lodge Centre Strategic Plan:
   • Enhance the client / family experience
   • Assist in improving the quality of client services that are being provided.
   • Nurture the potential and explore possibilities for clients/family/staff
   • Help improve patient flow
   • Enhance partnerships with clients/families/health providers and the community
   • Promote Dignity and Respect
3. Research can be undertaken once Request for Access has been approved.
4. Investigators and all study personnel are required:
   • To have attended a WRHA PHIA orientation in the last three years
   • Sign the WRHA Pledge of Confidentiality
   • If required, contact Deer Lodge Centre Privacy Officer at 204-599-9744
5. Upon completion of the study, please forward a completed copy of the “FINAL STUDY STATUS REPORT” to [email protected].
6. All those who carry out research at the Centre must provide the Deer Lodge Centre Research Program Committee and the host department / unit with a written copy of the research results and must credit the Centre in all publications and presentations unless this is mutually agreed to be inappropriate.