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.
Area of Focuss: Patient safety
2012
Quality of Care and Safety of Patients Requiring Access to Emergency Department Care and Cancer Surgery and the Role and Process of Physician Advocacy
2011
Safety Implications for Patients Requiring Medevac Services to and from the Edmonton International Airport
An assessment of the patient safety issues to be addressed if medevac services were relocated to the Edmonton International Airport.
2010
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.
2010
Alberta’s Response to the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
A review of Alberta’s response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic and Alberta’s plans and preparedness to determine what could be improved in a future response to another pandemic or other public health emergency.
2009
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.