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National PS Registry
Welcome to the Patient Safety section of our pilot project of creating a registry of health care health informatics, quality improvement, and patient safety projects across Canada launched Fall of 2021. Our aim is to increase collaboration between healthcare providers by sharing projects and solutions. Our vision is to have an easily searched and indexed registry to find the projects you are looking for!
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A Comparison Between Computer-Assisted Self-Triage by Patients and Triage Performed by Nurses in the Emergency Department
Sachin Trivedi - mgbetz@hotmail.com
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
A Determination of Emergency Department Pre-Triage Times in Patients not Arriving by Ambulance Compared to Widely Used Guideline Recommendations
Martin Betz - mgbetz@hotmail.com
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Unidentified patients in the emergency department: a historical cohort study
Kara Tastad - kara.tastad@usask.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
A Cognitive Autopsy Approach Towards Explaining Diagnostic Failure
Pat Croskerry - pgcxkerry@gmail.com
Planning/Thinking
Going to the COVID-19 Gemba: Using observation and high reliability strategies to achieve safety in a time of crisis
Jennifer Thull-Freedman - jennifer.thull-freedman@ahs.ca
Project Complete
The impact of emergency department crowding on admission decisions and patient outcomes
Huiyin Ouyang - oyhy@hku.hk
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
You might have COVID-19: improving patient education
for behaviour change using information design
Samuel Vaillancourt - sam.vaillanncourt@utoronto.ca
Project Complete
Profiles in Patient Safety: Medication Errors in the
Emergency Department
Pat Croskerry - pgcxkerry@gmail.com
Planning/Thinking
Adverse events in the paediatric emergency department: a prospective cohort study
Amy Plint - plint@cheo.on.ca
Project Complete
Parental knowledge of trampoline safety in children
Suzanne Beno - suzanne.beno@sickkids.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Equality of care between First Nations and non-First
Nations patients in Saskatoon emergency
departments
Rachit Batta - rab886@mail.usask.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Profiles in patient safety: A "perfect storm" in the emergency department
Samuel G. Campbell - samuel.campbell@nshealth.ca
Planning/Thinking
Self-documentary in the emergency department:
Perspectives on patients recording their own
procedures
Taofiq Oyedokun - aj.donauer@usask.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Establishing research priorities for patient safety in emergency medicine: a multidisciplinary consensus panel
Amy C. Plint - plint@cheo.on.ca
Planning/Thinking