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National QI Registry
Welcome to the Quality Improvement 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!
We welcome contributions from all healthcare areas.
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Improving care for residents in long term care facilities experiencing an acute change in health status
Abraham Munene - abraham.munene2@ucalgary.ca
Planning / Thinking
The impact of consultation on length of stay in tertiary care emergency departments
Brian H. Rowe - brian.rowe@ualberta.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Regional Variation in Transient Ischemic Attack and Minor Stroke in Alberta Emergency Departments
Catherine Patocka - catherine.patocka@ucalgary.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
COVID-19 screening of asymptomatic patients admitted through emergency departments in Alberta: a prospective quality-improvement study
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Emergency Departments as the Health Safety Nets of Society: A Descriptive and Multicenter Analysis of Social Worker Support in the Emergency Room
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Orthomageddon: A retrospective cohort study of weather-dependent variations in emergency department volume in a Canadian city
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Emergency Department Pediatric Visits in Alberta for Cannabis After Legalization
Matthew E.M. Yeung - Matthew.yeung1@ucalgary.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
A Retrospective Review of Physician-related Patient Complaints from a Tertiary Pediatric Hospital
David Chaulk - david.chaulk@hsc.utah.edu
Project complete
Clinical performance of a new blood control peripheral intravenous catheter: A prospective, randomized, controlled study
Andrew McRae - amcrae@ucalgary.ca
Project complete
Emergency physician attitudes towards illness verification (sick notes)
Kate Hayman - jesse.mclaren@gmail.com
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
The mean abnormal result rates of laboratory tests ordered in the emergency department: shooting percentage insights from a multi-centre study
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Regional needs assessment for emergency physician
audit and feedback
Rakesh Gupta - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Relapse after emergency department discharge for acute asthma
Brian H. Rowe - brian.rowe@ualberta.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
An environmental scan of quality improvement and
patient safety activities in emergency medicine in
Canada
Edmund S H Kwok - ekwok@toh.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
An environmental scan of medical assessment units in Canada
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Factors Influencing Oral Anticoagulation Prescription for Patients Presenting to Emergency Departments With Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter
F. Russell Quinn - frquinn@ucalgary.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Emergency overcrowding and access block: A smaller problem than we think
Grant Innes - Grant.innes@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Development of a clinical decision support tool for diagnostic imaging use in patients with low back pain: a study protocol
Jill Hayden - jhayden@dal.ca
Planning/Thinking
Recommendations for enhancing collaboration between the Canadian emergency department quality improvement and research communities
Lucas Chartier - lucas.chartier@uhn.ca
Project complete
Quality improvement primer part 1: Preparing for
a quality improvement project in the emergency
department
Lucas Chartier - lucas.chartier@uhn.ca
Project complete
Quality improvement primer part 3: Evaluating and sustaining a quality improvement project in the emergency department.
Lucas Chartier - lucas.chartier@uhn.ca
Project complete
Residents' perspective of quality improvement and patient safety education in Canadian emergency medicine residency programs
Sachin Trivedi - svt882@mail.usask.ca
Project complete
Is routine measurement of international normalized ratio necessary as part of the investigation of patients with cardiac-type chest pain?
Samuel G. Campbell - emsgc@nshealth.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Implementation of Chest Compression Feedback Technology to Improve the Quality of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Emergency Department: A Quality Initiative Test-of-change Study
Jodie Pritchard - jodie.pritchard@medportal.ca
Project complete
Emergency department triage redesign: can elements designed to improve department flow reduce door-to-ECG times in self-presenting ED patients suspected of myocardial infarction?
Shawn Mondoux - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Project complete
Limitations of pulmonary embolism ICD-10 codes in emergency department administrative data: let the buyer beware
Andrew McRae - amcrae@ucalgary.ca
Limitations of pulmonary embolism ICD-10 codes in emergency department administrative data: let the buyer beware
The emergency to home project: impact of an emergency department care coordinator on hospital admission and emergency department utilization among seniors
Christopher Matthew Bond - sperss97@gmail.com
Project complete
Improving Door-to-Needle Times for Acute Ischemic Stroke: Effect of Rapid Patient Registration, Moving Directly to Computed Tomography, and Giving Alteplase at the Computed Tomography Scanner
Eric E. Smith - eesmith@ucalgary.ca
Project complete
Assessment of consultation impact on emergency department operations through novel metrics of responsiveness and decision-making efficiency
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Multi-site intervention to improve emergency department care for patients who live with opioid use disorder: A quantitative evaluation
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Project complete
Determinants of Computed Tomography Head Scan Ordering for Patients with Low-Risk Headache in the Emergency Department
Meaghan J. Mackenzie - meaghan.mackenzie2@ucalgary.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Provincial Door-to-Needle Improvement Initiative Results in Improved Patient Outcomes Across an Entire Population
Noreen Kamal - noreen.kamal@dal.ca
Project complete
Febrile Infant QI Collaborative
Jennifer Thull-Freedman - jennifer.thull-freedman@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
CAEP Position Statement � Sick notes for minor illness
Jesse McLaren - jesse.mclaren@gmail.com
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Association of emergency department boarding times on hospital length of stay for patients with psychiatric illness
Daniel Lane -dan.lane@ucalgary.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Matching Capacity to Demand: A Regional Dashboard Reduces Ambulance Avoidance and Improves Accessibility of Receiving Hospitals
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Project complete
Admissions to Canadian hospitals for acute asthma:
A prospective, multicentre study
Brian Rowe - brian.rowe@ualberta.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Acute management and outcomes of patients with diabetes mellitus presenting to Canadian emergency departments with hypoglycemia
Brian H. Rowe - brian.rowe@ualberta.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Emergency Physician Patterns Related to Anticoagulation of Patients with Recent-Onset Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Treating and reducing anxiety and pain in the paediatric emergency department�TIME FOR ACTION�the TRAPPED quality improvement collaborative
Evelyne D Trottier - evelyne.doyon-trottier.1@umontreal.ca
Project complete
ffects of a reminder to initiate oral anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter discharged from the emergency department: REMINDER study
F. Russell Quinn - frquinn@ucalgary.ca
Project complete
Discharge instructions for caregivers in the context of pediatric emergency care: a narrative synthesis protocol
Janet Curran - janet.curran@iwk.nshealth.ca
Planning/Thinking
Return to the ED and hospitalisation following minor injuries among older persons treated in the emergency department: predictors among independent seniors within 6 months
Jacques Lee - jacques.lee@sunnybrook.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
How do emergency departments and emergency leaders catalyze positive change through quality improvement collaborations?
Lucas Chartier - lucas.chartier@uhn.ca
Project complete
Quality improvement primer part 2: executing a quality improvement project in the emergency department
Lucas Chartier - lucas.chartier@uhn.ca
Project complete
Qualitative evaluation of a mandatory provincial programme auditing emergency department return visits
Lucas B. Chartier - lucas.chartier@uhn.ca
Project complete
Attitudes Toward Influenza Vaccination Administration in the Emergency Department Among Health Care Providers: A Cross-Sectional Survey
Noelle Ozog - nkozog@gmail.com
Planning/Thinking
Feasibility of a quality improvement project to increase adherence to evidence-based pulmonary embolism diagnosis in the emergency department
Federico Geremini - germinif@mcmaster.ca
Project complete
Predicting positive practice improvement: a model for understanding how data and self-perception lead to practice change
Shawn Mondoux - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Seasonal variations in modes of presentation in ST elevation myocardial infarction
Shawn Mondoux - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline