Tag Archive for: Quality and Safety 2019

Quality and Safety Mark Boulos mark.boulos@sunnybrook.ca Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre & University of TorontoIn a randomized controlled trial of stroke/TIA patients, use of home sleep apnea testing compared to in-laboratory polysomnography increased the rate of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) diagnosis and treatment, reduced daytime sleepiness, improved functional outcomes, and...

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Quality and Safety Duminda Wijeysundera d.wijeysundera@utoronto.ca 416-340-5164 MSH-UHN AMO, University Health Network, University of Toronto Stuart McCluskey stuart.mccluskey@uhn.caMSU-13-019 In this international multicentre prospective cohort study of 1401 patients undergoing major surgery (published in the Lancet in June 2018), we found that the usual method used by physicians to estimate...

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Quality and Safety Phillip Segal phillip.segal@uhn.ca 416-340-5329 Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto Geetha Mukerji Geetha.Mukerji@wchospital.caMSH-15-011 An innovative project engaging both patients and health care providers to identify the key clinical, process and patient-reported outcomes that distinguish true quality diabetes care. Called the "Diabetes Scorecard" ,...

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Quality and Safety Sylvain Boet sboet@toh.ca 613-797-8899 x 78187 The Ottawa Hospital and The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Glenn Posner 613-798-5555 x18912 The Ottawa Hospital Nicole Etherington netherington@ohri.caTOH-17-002 This project involved successful implementation of the innovative OR Black Box® (which records audio, video, and physiological data) to improve quality...

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Quality and Safety Daniel McIsaac 613-761-4169 613-798-5555 x 18629 dmcisaac@toh.ca emhladkowicz@toh.ca The Ottawa Hospital, The University of OttawaTOH-18-015 We have collaborated with the TOH mHealth lab and our patient advisors to develop, refine and test our PREDICT tool in an iterative process. The feedback from our patient advisors contributed...

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Quality and Safety Adam Rahman adam.rahman@sjhc.london.on.ca 519-663-3170 AMOSO Marko Mrkobrada marko.mrkobrada@lhsc.on.caAMO-15-007 Malnutrition is a debilitating and highly prevalent condition in the acute hospital setting.  We conducted a factorial-design 2x2 randomized trial of a novel nutritional pathway where we identified at-risk hospitalized medical patients, and then provided nutritional supplementation in hospital...

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Quality and Safety Gregory Hare hareg@smh.ca MatelaL@smh.ca 416-864-5825 St. Michael’s Hospital SMH-15-012 We propose a transformation in local and global healthcare by assess the optimal effective and safe treatment of anemia in patients undergoing elective surgery utilizing well established and readily adoptable protocols including the administration of iron and...

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Quality and Safety Jerome Leis jerome.leis@sunnybrook.ca tanya.agnihotri@sunnybrook.ca 416-480-4243 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Matthew P. Muller SHS-17-005 This multicentre stepped wedge trial of 26 medical-surgical inpatient units across 5 Ontario hospitals found that electronic hand hygiene (HH) monitoring is a more accurate and effective method for measuring hand hygiene compliance...

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Quality and Safety Ahmed Nasr anasr@cheo.on.ca 613-767-7600 ext. 3748 CHAMO, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Division of Pediatric SurgeryCHA-17-006 To the best of our knowledge, our team is developing the first patient decision aid (PtDA) in the field of pediatric surgery, specifically for the decision on elective interval appendectomy.This...

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Quality and Safety Robert Ohle Robert.Ohle@gmail.com 613-793-5209 Northern Ontario Academic Medical Association NOA-18-009 Dr. Robert Ohle received a NOAMA grant to adapt and improve current guidelines for Acute Aortic Syndrome (AAS), a rare life-threatening and oft-misdiagnosed condition that results from a tear in the inner wall of the aorta....

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