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Patient Safety in the ED

Patient Safety in the ED

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...
Code Orange: Lessons Learned from the Westboro Bus Collision

Code Orange: Lessons Learned from the Westboro Bus Collision

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...
Airway Checklists in the ED

Airway Checklists in the ED

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...
Impact of two-step urine culture ordering in the emergency department: a time series analysis

Impact of two-step urine culture ordering in the emergency department: a time series analysis

by Hans Rosenberg | May 14, 2018 | Journal Club, Quality Improvement, Urology

Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4/5                   Usefulness Score: 4/5 Stagg A, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018 Feb;27(2):140-147.  Question and Methods: This QI time-series analysis assessed the efficacy, safety and costs of a 2-step urine culture (UC)...
Improving Morbidity and Mortality Rounds – the “OM3”

Improving Morbidity and Mortality Rounds – the “OM3”

by Edmond Kwok | Mar 22, 2018 | Commentary, Featured

In the post, Dr. Edmund Kwok presents the Ottawa Morbidity and Mortality Model (OM3), and provides users with an helpful guide on how to implement change to effectively improve M&M rounds at any institution. OM3 Guide In modern medicine, the concept of keeping...
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