by Elias Horner, Hans Rosenberg, Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy | Jul 4, 2023 | Journal Club, Quality Improvement
Methodology: 2.5/5 Usefulness: 2/5 Mathura P, et al. CJEM. 2022 Sep;24(6):636-640. Editorial: When evidence-based medicine and quality improvement collide. Question and Methods: Can we decrease physician ordering of the BUN (blood urea nitrogen) test, using an...
by Nicholas Choi, Hans Rosenberg, Jeff Perry | Jun 12, 2023 | Featured, Full Article, Journal Club, Quality Improvement
Methodology: 2/5 Usefulness: 3/5 Warstadt NM, et al. BMJ Open Qual. 2022 Jan;11(1):e001624. Questions and Methods: Using a cohort and QI approach, to demonstrate the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary educational intervention and EHR tool to increase sepsis bundle...
by Evelyn Tran, Lucy Karp | Jul 21, 2022 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement
What is patient safety? Patient safety is a discipline developed in response to the rise in hospital adverse events over the years. Aims to take lessons learned from prior unfavourable outcomes and make improvements that mitigate risks, prevent errors, and reduce...
by Harrison Carmichael, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | Jun 6, 2019 | Grand Round Summaries, Mass Casualty / Disaster, Quality Improvement, Resuscitation, Trauma
A Code Orange is a hospital-scale response to any event or group of events that results in a patient influx that outstrips available hospital resources. It realigns the way the hospital functions to support the emergency department and rapidly increases the number of...
by Nick Schouela, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | Apr 25, 2019 | Airway, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement, Resuscitation
A checklist is a physical, cognitive aid that lists essential actions required for a task to compensate for limitations in human memory. While checklists have been around forever, the concept of checklists in medicine is much newer. Medical checklists have been...
