Adrian Wagg

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
Email
wagg@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

56 screened 98 screened Quality improvement sustainability incontinence multi attribute utility framework


About

Dr. Adrian Wagg is a specialist in Geriatric and General Medicine with expertise in health services research.  He is currently a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta and Professor of Continence Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is Deputy Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta. Dr. Wagg has significant front-line experience in healthcare administration and systems development, a strong knowledge of operational issues and an in-depth perspective of healthcare of older Albertans. Dr. Wagg holds the Alberta Health Services Chair in Healthy Ageing. His research interests involve improving care for people with urinary incontinence, community engagement and the quality of care for older people in nursing homes. He is active in national and international clinical practice guideline development and is the  Co-Chair of the International Consultation on Incontinence; prior to this he was General Secretary of the International Continence Society. In his service to the community, Dr. Wagg is President of the Canadian Continence Foundation and participates in numerous other activities promoting health literacy and the healthy ageing of seniors.



Clinical Interests

Dr. Wagg performs inpatient and outpatient geriatric and internal medicine in the elderly and runs a specialist continence clinic for people with bladder and bowel problems.  

Research

Dr. Wagg developed an academic interest in incontinence and has gone on to be internationally recognised for his expertise in the area.    His other research interests are community engagement for healthy ageing, knowledge translation and quality improvement in older residents of nursing homes.  He has a number of grants, held as principal investigator and also is involved in a number of teams and collaborations with respect to improvements in Seniors care.0 including that of Indigenous peoples in NorthWest Territories.  ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5372-530X




Teaching

Dr. Wagg is an acknowledged high quality teacher.  His clinical teaching covers undergraduate and post graduate students.  Teaching covers basic clinical skills, geriatric and general medical subjects either in small groups or at the bedside.He has undergone teacher training and holds a qualification in medical education

He also delivers a community engagement series of lectures for Seniors' centres around Edmonton, covering the topics that no-one else covers (those below the belt) including ones that others do as well as a monthly webinar on healthy aging for seniors, posted on the web and widely viewed on youTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOqkQAkc-mJCHXEf1DtAXw/videos)

He also works with the Alzheimer Society as part of their seeds of hope programme.

Featured Publications

Song Y., MacEachern L., Doupe M.B., Ginsburg L., Chamberlain S.A., Cranley L., Easterbrook A., Hoben M., Knopp-Sihota J., Reid R.C., Wagg A., Estabrooks C.A., Keefe J.M., Rappon T., Berta W.B.

BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. 2022 December; 22 (1) 10.1186/s12913-022-08026-x


Doupe M., Brunkert T., Wagg A., Ginsburg L., Norton P., Berta W., Knopp-Sihota J., Estabrooks C.

Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 2022 December; 8 (1) 10.1186/s40814-022-01004-4


Doupe M., Brunkert T., Wagg A., Ginsburg L., Norton P., Berta W., Knopp-Sihota J., Estabrooks C.

Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 2022 December; 8 (1) 10.1186/s40814-022-00975-8


Wagg A.S., Herschorn S., Carlsson M., Fernet M., Oelke M.

Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research. 2022 September; 11 (13) 10.2217/cer-2022-0041


Vesentini G., O'Connor N., Elders A., Le Berre M., Nabhan A.F., Wagg A., Cacciari L., Dumoulin C.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2022 August; 2022 (8) 10.1002/14651858.CD015376


Cochrane Library. 2022 June; DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD015376.


ICS 2022 . 2022 June; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cont.2022.100239


Pham A.N.Q., Lindeman C., Voaklander D., Wagg A., Drummond N.

FAMILY PRACTICE. 2022 May; 39 (3):406-412 10.1093/fampra/cmab168


Knopp-Sihota J.A., Rachor G.S., Goodarzi Z., Holroyd-Leduc J., Estabrooks C.A., Wagg A.S.

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2022 March; 23 (3):514-515 10.1016/j.jamda.2021.07.037


Heesakkers J., Dorsthorst M.t., Wagg A.

Canadian Geriatrics Journal. 2022 March; 25 (1):72-78 10.5770/cgj.25.530


Pham A.N.Q., Voaklander D., Wagg A., Drummond N.

FAMILY PRACTICE. 2022 January; 39 (1):74-79 10.1093/fampra/cmab056


Suskind A.M., Vaittinen T., Gibson W., Hajebrahimi S., Ostaszkiewicz J., Davis N., Dickinson T., Spencer M., Wagg A.

NEUROUROLOGY AND URODYNAMICS. 2022 January; 41 (1):14-30 10.1002/nau.24795


Manns K., Khan A., Carlson K.V., Wagg A., Baverstock R.J., Trafford Crump R.

NEUROUROLOGY AND URODYNAMICS. 2022 January; 41 (1):42-47 10.1002/nau.24809


Larsudd-Kåverud J., Gyhagen J., Åkervall S., Molin M., Milsom I., Wagg A., Gyhagen M.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY. 2022 January; 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.07.035


THE DAILY EXPERIENCE OF URINARY INCONTINENCE IN PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR CARE PARTNERS: A

ICS 2022 . 2022 January;


Egbujie B.A., Northwood M., Turcotte L.A., McArthur C., Berg K., Heckman G.A., Wagg A.S., Hirdes J.P.

NEUROUROLOGY AND URODYNAMICS. 2022 January; 10.1002/nau.25018


Hunter K.F., Dahlke S., Kalogirou M.R., Pietrosanu M., Triscott J., Savard W., Wagg A.

Rehabilitation Nursing. 2022 January; 47 (3):109-118 10.1097/RNJ.0000000000000368


Monaghan T.F., Wagg A.S., Rahman S.N., Winer A.G.

JOURNAL OF UROLOGY. 2022 January; 207 (1):237-238 10.1097/JU.0000000000001683


Chapple C.R., Mironska E., Wagg A., Milsom I., Diaz D.C., Koelbl H., Pushkar D., Tubaro A., De Ridder D., Chartier-Kastler E., Phillips L.D.

European Urology Focus. 2022 January; 8 (1):360-361 10.1016/j.euf.2020.12.006


Northwood M., Turcotte L.A., McArthur C., Egbujie B.A., Berg K., Boscart V.M., Heckman G.A., Hirdes J.P., Wagg A.S.

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2022 January; 10.1016/j.jamda.2022.06.019


Van Besien W., Shire S., Decalf V., Ervin C.E., King S., Baldrey C., Da Silva A., Wagg A., Everaert K.E., Bower W.F.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PRACTICE. 2021 December; 75 (12) 10.1111/ijcp.14876


Factors Affecting the Sustainment, Sustainability, and Spread of Practice Changes in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. 2021 November;


Hunter K.F., Dahlke S., Smith N., Lin A., Rajabali S., Wagg A.

Rehabilitation Nursing. 2021 November; 46 (6):305-314 10.1097/RNJ.0000000000000313


Campbell M., Stewart T., Brunkert T., Campbell-Enns H., Gruneir A., Halas G., Hoben M., Scott E., Wagg A., Doupe M.

PLoS One. 2021 November; 16 (11 November) 10.1371/journal.pone.0259387


Gyhagen M., Ellström Engh M., Husslein H., Koelbl H., Nilsson I.E.K., Schulz J., Wagg A., Milsom I.

ACTA OBSTETRICIA ET GYNECOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA. 2021 November; 100 (11):1969-1976 10.1111/aogs.14244


The effect of fesoterodine 4 and 8mg daily and oxybutynin 5mg twice daily versus placebo on cognitive function in older adults with overactive bladder and mild cognitive impairment

International Urogynecology Journal/ IUGA 2021. 2021 November;


Tate K., Reid R.C., McLane P., Cummings G.E., Rowe B.H., Estabrooks C.A., Norton P., Lee J.S., Wagg A., Robinson C., Cummings G.G.

JOURNAL OF APPLIED GERONTOLOGY. 2021 October; 40 (10):1215-1225 10.1177/0733464820962638


Gibson W., Jones A., Hunter K., Wagg A.

PLoS One. 2021 October; 16 (10 October) 10.1371/journal.pone.0257506


Wagg A., Lee R.

Current Geriatrics Reports. 2021 September; 10 (3):124-131 10.1007/s13670-021-00357-7


Wagg A.S., Herschorn S., Carlsson M., Fernet M., Oelke M.

NEUROUROLOGY AND URODYNAMICS. 2021 August; 40 (6):1559-1568 10.1002/nau.24706


Fox, M.T., Sidani, S, Butler, J.I., Skinner, M.W., Macdonald, M., Durocher, E., Hunter, K.F., Wagg, A., Weeks, L.E. MacLeod, A. Dahlke, S.

Implementation Science. 2021 July; 10.1186/s43058-021-00179-w


Factors Affecting the Sustainment, Sustainability, and Spread of Practice Changes in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes.

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting. 2021 July;


Anh N Q Pham, Don Voaklander, Adrian Wagg, Neil Drummond

FAMILY PRACTICE. 2021 June; 10.1093/fampra/cmab056


Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Nursing Home Residents with Dementias: Perceptions on Utility of Current Practices

Virtual ICFSR 2021 Conference; 11th edition of the International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research . 2021 May;


Saravana-Bawan B., Warkentin L.M., Ohinmaa A., Wagg A.S., Holroyd-Leduc J., Padwal R.S., Clement F., Khadaroo R.G.

Annals of Medicine and Surgery. 2021 May; 65 10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102368


Hanson H.M., Léveillé T., Cole M., Soril L.J.J., Clement F., Wagg A., Silvius J.

BMJ Open Qual. 2021 April; 10 (2) 10.1136/bmjoq-2020-001211


Wagg A.

EUROPEAN UROLOGY. 2021 April; 205 (4):1152 10.1097/JU.0000000000001506.01


Wagg A.

JOURNAL OF UROLOGY. 2021 April; 205 (4):1152 10.1097/JU.0000000000001506.01


Hanson H.M., Cowan K., Wagg A.

CMAJ open. 2021 April; 9 (2):E522-E528 10.9778/cmajo.20190225


Wagg A.

EUROPEAN UROLOGY. 2021 April; 79 (4):505-506 10.1016/j.eururo.2021.01.004


Milsom I., Wagg A., Oelke M., Chapple C.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PRACTICE. 2021 April; 75 (4) 10.1111/ijcp.13870


Keefe J.M., Cranley L., Berta W.B., Taylor D., Beacom A.M., McAfee E., Maceachern L.E., Boudreau D., Hall J., Thompson G., Squires J.E., Wagg A., Estabrooks C.A.

CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT. 2021 March; 40 (1):166-176 10.1017/S0714980820000057


Thomas F Monaghan 1 2, Adrian S Wagg 3, Syed N Rahman 1 2, Andrew G Winer 1 2

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY. 2021 February; doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000001683


Fritel X., van den Heuvel E., Wagg A., Ragot S., Tannenbaum C.

NEUROUROLOGY AND URODYNAMICS. 2021 February; 40 (2):705-713 10.1002/nau.24614


Canadian Association on Gerontology.. 2021 January; 10.3390/nursrep11010003


Shaw C., Wagg A.

Medicine (United Kingdom). 2021 January; 49 (1):44-50 10.1016/j.mpmed.2020.10.012


Wagg A., Lee R.

Current Geriatrics Reports. 2021 January; 10.1007/s13670-021-00357-7


Smith N., Rajabali S., Hunter K.F., Chambers T., Fasinger R., Wagg A.

International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 2020 December; 26 (8):432-442 10.12968/ijpn.2020.26.8.432


Gibson W., Makhani A., Hunter K.F., Wagg A.

Canadian Geriatrics Journal. 2020 December; 23 (4):329-334 10.5770/CGJ.23.423


EXPLORING OLDER ADULTS PRIORITIES OF URINARY INCONTINENCE; A COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY BASED RESEARCH APPROACH

ICS 2020 Online. 2020 November;


Roy H.A., Nettleton J., Blain C., Dalton C., Farhan B., Fernandes A., Georgopoulos P., Klepsch S., Lavelle J., Martinelli E., Panicker J.N., Radoja I., Rapidi C.A., Pereira e Silva R., Tudor K., Wagg A.S., Drake M.J.

NEUROUROLOGY AND URODYNAMICS. 2020 November; 39 (8):2535-2543 10.1002/nau.24469


Gibson W., Makhani A., Hunter K.F., Wagg A.

Canadian Geriatrics Journal. 2020 November; 23 (4):329-334 10.5770/CGJ.23.423


Pederson J.L., Padwal R.S., Warkentin L.M., Holroyd-Leduc J.M., Wagg A., Khadaroo R.G.

PLoS One. 2020 November; 15 (11 November) 10.1371/journal.pone.0241554


Monaghan T.F., Wagg A.S., Bliwise D.L., Agudelo C.W., Michelson K.P., Rahman S.N., Epstein M.R., Haddad R., Everaert K., Lazar J.M., Weiss J.P.

AGING CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH. 2020 October; 32 (10):1993-2000 10.1007/s40520-019-01416-y


Monaghan T.F., Wagg A.S., Bliwise D.L., Agudelo C.W., Michelson K.P., Rahman S.N., Epstein M.R., Haddad R., Everaert K., Lazar J.M., Weiss J.P.

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 2020 October; 32 (10):2111 10.1007/s40520-019-01456-4