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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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Reducing continuous pulse oximetry use in the emergency department for infants with mild to moderate bronchiolitis
Katie Gardner - Katie.gardner@iwk.nshealth.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Doc in the box: effectiveness of physician initial assessment at triage in the emergency department
Shawn Mondoux - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Project complete
Communication between nurses and physicians: strategies to surviving in the emergency department trenches
Alun Ackery - alun.ackery@mail.utoronto.ca
Planning/Thinking
The Characteristics and Effectiveness of Interventions for Frequent Emergency Department Utilizing Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain: A Systematic Review
Charles K. Wong - charleskhwong@gmail.com
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Meta-analysis of interventions to reduce door to needle times in acute ischaemic stroke patients
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Optimizing emergency department care transitions to outpatient settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Fariba Aghajafari - fariba.aghajafari@ucalgary.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Reducing preventable patient transfers from long-term care facilities to emergency departments: a scoping review
Kiran L. Grant - kiran.grant@mail.utoronto.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Effect of Fatigue Training on Safety, Fatigue, and Sleep in Emergency Medical Services Personnel and Other Shift Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
P. Daniel Patterson - pattersonpd@upmc.edu
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Shorter Versus Longer Shift Durations to Mitigate Fatigue and Fatigue-Related Risks in Emergency Medical Services Personnel and Related Shift Workers: A Systematic Review
P. Daniel Patterson - pattersonpd@upmc.edu
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Effectiveness of hospital avoidance interventions among elderly patients: A systematic review
Paul E. Ronksley - peronksl@ucalgary.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Enabling positive practice improvement through data-driven feedback: A model for understanding how data and self-perception lead to practice change
Shawn Mondoux - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Planning / Thinking
Quality improvement in the time of coronavirus disease 2019 - A change strategy well suited to pandemic response
Shawn Mondoux - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Planning/Thinking
When the system comes together to solve emergency department flow
Shawn Mondoux - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Identifying Acuity Level-Based Adult Emergency Department Use Time Trends Across Demographic Characteristics
Swarna S. Weerasinghe - swarna.weerasinghe@dal.ca
Planning/Thinking
Coronavirus disease – 2019 assessment zone: A community hospital's rapid response to a novel infectious pandemic
Rohit Mohindra - cori.atlin@utoronto.ca
Project complete
Improving Quality of Care Through a Mandatory Provincial Audit Program: Ontario's Emergency Department Return Visit Quality Program
Lucas B. Chartier - lucas.chartier@uhn.ca
Project complete
Implementing an Emotion-Focused Consultation Service to Examine
Medically Unexplained Symptoms in the Emergency Department
Allan Abbass - allan.abbass@dal.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
An Emergency Department Protocol for the Management of Cellulitis: A CQI Pilot Project
Samuel G. Campbell - emsgc@nshealth.ca
Ongoing PDSA cycles
Procedural Sedation and Analgesia Facilitator � Expanded scope role for paramedics in
the Emergency Department
Samuel G. Campbell - emsgc@nshealth.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Multidisciplinary quality improvement initiative to optimize acute neurovascular imaging for transient ischemic attack or minor stroke
Amy Yu - amyyx.yu@utoronto.ca
Project complete
Using an ambulatory zone to improve physician initial assessment times in a tertiary care hospital emergency department
Aikta Verma - aikta.verma@sunnybrook.ca
Ongoing PDSA cycles
Reducing hospital admissions using an interprofessional team
in an academic emergency department
Aikta Verma - aikta.verma@sunnybrook.ca
Ongoing PDSA cycles
Implementation of sepsis order sets to decrease the time to antibiotics in the emergency department: a quality improvement initiative
Aikta Verma - aikta.verma@sunnybrook.ca
Ongoing PDSA cycles
Factors associated with failure of emergency wait-time targets for high acuity discharges and intensive care unit admissions
Ivy Cheng - ivy.cheng@sunnybrook.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Intervention to decrease emergency department crowding: does it have an effect on return visits and hospital readmissions?
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Project complete
The Impact of COVID-19 on a Large, Canadian Community Emergency Department
Daniel Dongjoo Lee - dongjoo.lee@gmail.utoronto.ca
Project complete
Early lessons from COVID-19 that may reduce future emergency department crowding
Arshia P Javidan - arshia.javidan@mail.utoronto.ca
Preliminary / Thinking
Chest ultrasonography versus supine chest radiography for diagnosis of pneumothorax in trauma patients in the emergency department
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
The International Federation for Emergency Medicine report on emergency department crowding and access block: A brief summary
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Transition in Care from EMS Providers to Emergency Department Nurses: A Systematic Review
Gudrun Reay - gudrun.reay2@ucalgary.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Recommendations for enhancing collaboration between the Canadian emergency department quality improvement and research communities
Lucas B. Chartier - lucas.chartier@uhn.ca
Project complete
Effects of Napping During Shift Work on Sleepiness and Performance in Emergency Medical Services Personnel and Similar Shift Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
P. Daniel Patterson - pattersonpd@upmc.edu
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Effect of Task Load Interventions on Fatigue in Emergency Medical Services Personnel and Other Shift Workers: A Systematic Review
P. Daniel Patterson - pattersonpd@upmc.edu
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Audit and feedback for individual practitioners in the emergency department: an evidence-based and practical approach
Shawn K. Dowling - skdowling@gmail.com
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Clinical Improvement Interventions for Residents and Practicing Physicians: A Scoping Review of Coaching and Mentoring for Practice Improvement
Shawn Mondoux - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Teaching Quality Improvement in Emergency Medicine Training Programs: A Review of Best Practices
Shawn Mondoux - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Planning / Thinking
Paramedic Recognition of Sepsis in the Prehospital Setting: A Prospective Observational Study
Robert S. Green - greenrs@dal.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Implementation of virtual care in the NYGH ED
Cori Atlin - cori.atlin@utoronto.ca
Ongoing PDSA cycles
Application of the Informatics Stack Framework to Describe a Population-Level Emergency Department Return Visit Continuous Quality Improvement Program
Ahmed Taher - ahmed.taher@mail.utoronto.ca
Project complete
Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy
to reduce rates of emergency department return
visits for patients with medically unexplained
symptoms: preliminary evidence from a pre�post
intervention study
Allan Abbass - allan.abbass@dal.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Attitudes Toward Influenza Vaccination Administration in the Emergency Department Among Patients: A Cross-Sectional Survey
Noelle Ozog - nkozog@gmail.com
Planning/Thinking
Facilitated Management of Suspected Deep Vein Thrombosis
by Emergency Department-Based Paramedics
Samuel G. Campbell - emsgc@nshealth.ca
Project complete
Patient Opinion of Visiting Therapy Dogs in an Hospital Emergency Department
Joanne Reddekopp - maryellen.gibson@usask.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
A multi-disciplinary quality improvement project to improve adherence to best practice guidelines for emergency department patients with transient ischemic attack
Aikta Verma - aikta.verma@sunnybrook.ca
Preliminary data gathering/ baseline
Effect of On-line Medical Control on Prehospital Code Stroke Triage
Aikta Verma - aikta.verma@sunnybrook.ca
Project complete
Implementation of trauma team activation criteria: a quality
improvement project to reduce overtriage at a level 1 trauma
centre
Aikta Verma - aikta.verma@sunnybrook.ca
Ongoing PDSA cycles
Push-Alert Notification of Troponin Results to Physician Smartphones Reduces the Time to Discharge Emergency Department Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Aikta Verma - aikta.verma@sunnybrook.ca
Project complete
Reducing utilization of unnecessary coagulation tests by emergency providers
Rakesh Gupta - rgupta23@gmail.com
Project complete
The clock is ticking: using in situ simulation to improve time to blood administration for bleeding trauma patients
Andrew Petrosoniak - petro82@gmail.com
Project complete