PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Governance Organization SMH - St. Michael's Hospital Medical Services Association Project Title SMH-21-010 – Evaluating Telephone-Based Specialist Care Provided During a Pandemic to Inform Best Practice Guidance Project Highlights The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a rapid transition from primarily in-person to primarily “virtual” medical care in order to...
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COVID-19 Study of Children and Families: Reducing the risk and severity of COVID-19 in Canadian Children and Parents
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Governance Organization SMH - St. Michael's Hospital Medical Services Association Project Title SMH-20-041 – COVID-19 Study of Children and Families: Reducing the risk and severity of COVID-19 in Canadian Children and Parents Project Highlights As Canada and the world continue to lift COVID-19 restrictions, now is an...
Developing and implementing a Toronto Critical Care Research Hub (TCCRH) for conducting pandemic research to allow efficient and effective conduct for completion of pandemic research in critical care.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Governance Organization SMH - St. Michael's Hospital Medical Services Organization Project Title SMH-20-040 – Developing and implementing a Toronto Critical Care Research Hub (TCCRH) for conducting pandemic research to allow efficient and effective conduct for completion of pandemic research in critical care. Project Highlights Aim- To rapidly...
COVID-19 and diabetes: Clinical Outcomes and Navigated NEtwork Care Today, the CONNECT study
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Governance Organization SMH - St. Michael's Hospital Medical Services Organization Project Title SMH-20-039 – COVID-19 and diabetes: Clinical Outcomes and Navigated NEtwork Care Today, the CONNECT study Project Highlights Diabetes has been implicated as a major risk factor for poor health outcomes among those with COVID-19 in...
Mortality among patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding during the COVID-19 Pandemic
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Governance Organization SMH - St. Michael's Hospital Medical Services Organization Project Title SMH-20-034 – Mortality among patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding during the COVID-19 Pandemic Project Highlights We led a study examining upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) in the Toronto area during the first wave of the COVID-19...
Exogenous Surfactant Administration for Patients with COVID-19: the LESSCOVID trial (the London Exogenous Surfactant Study for COVI19)
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Governance Organization AMO - Academic Medical Organization of Southwestern Ontario Project Title AMO-20-031 – Exogenous Surfactant Administration for Patients with COVID-19: the LESSCOVID trial (the London Exogenous Surfactant Study for COVI19) Project Highlights London Exogenous Surfactant Study in COVID-19 Patients (LESSCOVID) Background and Rationale Over the last...
Hypercoagulation in SARS-CoV-2 infection – Conventional Coagulation Testing versus Point of Care Thromboelastography
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Governance Organization AMO - Academic Medical Organization of Southwestern Ontario Project Title AMO-20-030 – Hypercoagulation in SARS-CoV-2 infection – Conventional Coagulation Testing versus Point of Care Thromboelastography Project Highlights We have been successful in procuring and implementing a thromboelastography (TEG) platform at LHSC. The TEG equipment has...
Rapid Identification of Therapeutic Targets to Optimize Care of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Governance Organization AMO - Academic Medical Organization of Southwestern Ontario Project Title AMO-20-029 – Rapid Identification of Therapeutic Targets to Optimize Care of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Project Highlights Despite widespread vaccination, the threat of COVID-19 has not ended. Indeed, new variants continue to emerge and localized...
Multi-centre randomized controlled trial of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for COVID-19
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Governance Organization TOH - The Ottawa Hospital Academic Medical Organization Project Title TOH-21-015 – Multi-centre randomized controlled trial of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for COVID-19 Project Highlights This project aimed to evaluate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) on clinical outcome status in hypoxemic hospitalized COVID-19 patients....
Getting ahead of the curve: Predictive COVID-19 case identification using an iterative propensity score modelling and AI approach.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Governance Organization TOH - The Ottawa Hospital Academic Medical Organization Project Title TOH-21-011 – Getting ahead of the curve: Predictive COVID-19 case identification using an iterative propensity score modelling and AI approach Project Highlights To date, the researchers have identified the data and defined variables in publicly...