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Flow Hacks 9 – OUCH! Timely analgesia administration for patients with MSK injuries in the ED.

In Education & Quality Improvement, FLOW Hacks by Laila NasserLeave a Comment

To continue our FLOW Hacks series, Victoria Woolner (NP, MN, MSc QIPS) writes about another initiative her team has taken on, this time tackling timely analgesia administration for patients with MSK injuries in the ED.  This innovation was also the winner of the Top QIPS Abstract Award at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physician’s Conference in 2019.  Setting This intervention was carried out at Toronto General Hospital (University Health Network), an academic site with …

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HiQuiPs: Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE ) – Using Health Informatics to Decrease Adverse Drug Events

In Education & Quality Improvement, Featured, HiQuiPs by Ryan TamLeave a Comment

Your emergency department (ED) recently switched over to an electronic health system (EHR). While you slowly adjust your clinical workflow, you find all the dictating, clicking and typing cumbersome and “slows you down”. You wonder how this innovative technology seemingly has become the foremost barrier to your clinical care and how this technology could ever improve patient care? These frustrations and concerns are common sentiments as many EDs across the country are switching …

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HiQuiPs: Year in Review

In Education & Quality Improvement, HiQuiPs by Ahmed TaherLeave a Comment

It has already been one year since we launched the HiQuiPs (Health informatics, Quality Improvement, Patient Safety) series on CanadiEM.  This year we had fifteen contributors from across the country, and over 15,000 page visits to our series.  Over the past year, we have produced thirteen posts over the HiQuiPs interrelated fields:  Quality Improvement: On QI, we introduced what is quality of care in the ED, then to guide our readers through the …

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CanadiEM MVP Infographic Series

In Featured, Infographics by Alvin ChinLeave a Comment

Introducing the CanadiEM MVP Infographic Series Evidence-based practice is critical for delivering quality emergency care, but with such a broad specialty identifying and recalling high-yield studies can be challenging. This is especially true for new EM learners, who are tasked with becoming evidence-informed while transitioning to practice. To make this process easier, CJEM recently published a survey-based study aimed at compiling “must know” papers for emergency medicine trainees. The study, conducted by Bazak …