Total Parenteral Nutrition Review

Alberta Health Services requested the HQCA to conduct an independent review of the implications for quality and patient safety in AHS processes related to all aspects of Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) in the Edmonton Zone.

Quality of Anatomical Pathology Specimen Preparation and Interpretation 2010-11

A 2011 independent review of separate events in the practice of anatomical pathology that occurred in Calgary and Edmonton.

Quality of Care and Safety of Patients Requiring Access to Emergency Department Care and Cancer Surgery and the Role and Process of Physician Advocacy

A review looking into whether the quality of care and safety of patients requiring access to emergency department (ED) care and cancer surgery were compromised due to extended lengths of waits for required services.

Review of Three Medication and One Expressed Breast Milk Incidents at the Alberta Children’s Hospital

A review of three medication incidents and one expressed breast milk incident that occurred on the same nursing unit at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Alberta over the course of two months.

Infection Prevention and Control in the High Prairie Health Complex (focusing on the re-use of single-use syringes)

A review of the High Prairie Health Complex’s use of single-use syringes, which were being commonly loaded with multiple doses of medication and administered through intravenous (IV) tubing to multiple patients during the course of a day in the endoscopy suite and recovery room.