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Publikováno v:
BMJ Open Quality, Vol 13, Iss 2 (2024)
Background Patient safety learning systems play a critical role in supporting safety culture in healthcare organisations. A lack of explicit standards leads to inconsistent implementation across organisations, causing uncertainty about their roles an
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/5718e323d6f14a8e8e2005bb76e7cf6b
Autor:
Alan J Forster, Kednapa Thavorn, Sunita Mulpuru, Daniel McIsaac, Hassan Assem Mahmoud, Mohamed A Abdelrazek, Amr Assem Mahmoud
Publikováno v:
BMJ Open Quality, Vol 12, Iss 2 (2023)
Background The implementation and continuous improvement of patient safety learning systems (PSLS) is a principal strategy for mitigating preventable harm to patients. Although substantial efforts have sought to improve these systems, there is a need
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/da37fc8f1c1b41718aec30e036a89055
Autor:
John Marshall, Dean A Fergusson, Monica Taljaard, Deborah J Cook, John Muscedere, Charles Weijer, Alan J Forster, Ian D Graham, Kusum Menon, Kednapa Thavorn, Alison Fox-Robichaud, Steven Hawken, Shane W English, Claudio Martin, Andrew Seely, Ian Stiell, Tracy McArdle, Raphael Saginur, Akshai Iyengar, Colin McCartney, Lauralyn Ann McIntyre
Publikováno v:
BMJ Open, Vol 13, Iss 2 (2023)
Objectives Normal saline (NS) and Ringer’s lactate (RL) are the most common crystalloids used for fluid therapy. Despite evidence of possible harm associated with NS (eg, hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis, impaired kidney function and death), few l
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/d53f681f5fbf477a9a5ce12c53367a3a
Autor:
Chantal Backman, Alan J Forster, Daniel I McIsaac, Melanie Chin, Shirley Huang, Sunita Mulpuru, Daniel M Kobewka, Aaron Leblanc, Nermin Diab, Tammy Pulfer, Julie Lawson
Publikováno v:
BMJ Open Quality, Vol 11, Iss 3 (2022)
Background Frailty is a robust predictor of poor outcomes among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease yet is not measured in routine practice. We determined barriers and facilitators to measuring frailty in a hospital setting, designed
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/42147599fe5945b597422f85e65fa5fd
Autor:
Alan J Forster, Jason P Acker, Angie Tuttle, Iris Perelman, Nancy Cober, Heather Maddison, Melanie Tokessy
Publikováno v:
BMJ Open, Vol 11, Iss 2 (2021)
Introduction With over 1 million units of blood transfused each year in Canada, their use has a significant clinical and economic impact on our health system. Adequate screening of blood donors is important to ensure the safety and clinical benefit o
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/f7205ca7f0cb4b5d8ab8e1161e95293a
Autor:
Derek J Roberts, Sudhir K Nagpal, Alan J Forster, Timothy Brandys, Christine Murphy, Alison Jennings, Shira A Strauss, Evgeniya Vishnyakova, Julie Lawson, Daniel I McIsaac
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0253288 (2021)
IntroductionThere has been limited study of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in patients at risk of limb loss. Our primary objective was to estimate the prevalence of disability in this patient population using the World Health Organization Disabilit
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/4c2694be0a87455b9e29d5cfd3642e6c
Autor:
Lindy Luo BSc, Alan J Forster MD, MSc, FRCPC, Kathleen Gartke MD, FRCSC, John Trickett RN, Fraser D Rubens MD, MSc, FACS, FRCSC
Publikováno v:
Journal of Patient Experience, Vol 6 (2019)
Patient experience (PE) is recognized as a key component in the quality of health-care delivery. Public reporting of hospital, division, and physician-specific PE results has added to the momentum of adopting strategies to augment this metric of care
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/2700d1f1f8034c3d9046435a40d9325e
Autor:
Chantal Backman, Sharon Johnston, Nelly D Oelke, Katharina Kovacs Burns, Linda Hughes, Wendy Gifford, Jeanie Lacroix, Alan J Forster
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 1, p e0211024 (2019)
BackgroundResearch has shown that adverse events during care transitions from hospital to home can have a significant impact on patients' outcomes, leading to readmission, delayed healing or even death. Gaps exist in the ways of monitoring care durin
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/1b4864a7b5d443c5aa427e7a35e52a5b
Autor:
Nadine Shehata, Alan J Forster, Nadine Lawrence, Robin Ducharme, Dean A Fergusson, Michaël Chassé, Deanna M Rothwell, Paul C Hébert, Alan T Tinmouth, Kumanan Wilson
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 9, p e0138427 (2015)
While it is known that the use of health care resources increases at the end of life in patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the allocation of blood products at the end of life has not been described. The objective of this study was to
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/ac009ce8adf7418ca97e3f917870f86d
Publikováno v:
Canadian Respiratory Journal, Vol 20, Iss 3, Pp e55-e59 (2013)
BACKGROUND: Following the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2003, hospitals have been mandated to use infection screening questionnaires to determine which patients have infectious respiratory illness and, therefore, require isolation pre
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/bf3038999d814c8bbb4b18d471923894