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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

Preliminary data gathering/ baseline

Doc in the box: effectiveness of physician initial assessment at triage in the emergency department

Project complete

Communication between nurses and physicians: strategies to surviving in the emergency department trenches

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

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

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

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

Project complete

Using an ambulatory zone to improve physician initial assessment times in a tertiary care hospital emergency department

Ongoing PDSA cycles

Reducing hospital admissions using an interprofessional team
in an academic emergency department

Ongoing PDSA cycles

Implementation of sepsis order sets to decrease the time to antibiotics in the emergency department: a quality improvement initiative

Ongoing PDSA cycles

Factors associated with failure of emergency wait-time targets for high acuity discharges and intensive care unit admissions

Preliminary data gathering/ baseline

PE guideline including MPE/ECPR

Rachel Goss - rachjs@gmail.com

Project complete

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

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

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

Preliminary data gathering/ baseline

Teaching Quality Improvement in Emergency Medicine Training Programs: A Review of Best Practices

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

Ongoing PDSA cycles

Application of the Informatics Stack Framework to Describe a Population-Level Emergency Department Return Visit Continuous Quality Improvement Program

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

Preliminary data gathering/ baseline

Effect of On-line Medical Control on Prehospital Code Stroke Triage

Project complete

Implementation of trauma team activation criteria: a quality
improvement project to reduce overtriage at a level 1 trauma
centre

Ongoing PDSA cycles

Push-Alert Notification of Troponin Results to Physician Smartphones Reduces the Time to Discharge Emergency Department Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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

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