HiQuiPs: Building Quality & Safety Infrastructure
Your 4-step guide to building sustainable quality & safety infrastructure at the department or program level!
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matthewhackerteper
- Jul 5
- 5 min
HiQuiPs: Optimizing your diagnostic reasoning – themes from CMPA medico-legal cases
An introduction to diagnostic reasoning based on real-world cases - in collaboration with the CMPA!
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tiffanykytse
- Jun 22
- 5 min
HiQuiPs: Managing crises - What’s going on behind the scenes?
An introduction to the crisis resource management framework and its use in clinical practice
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jocelynprice5
- Jun 7
- 6 min
HiQuiPs: QI Frameworks Part 2: Quality Improvement vs. Systems Thinking
In this HiQuiPs post, we compare and contrast quality improvement and systems thinking, and apply both concepts to the example of ED flow
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camillaparpia
- May 19
- 3 min
HiQuiPs: QI Frameworks Part 1: A Call for the Strategic Deployment of Improvement Modalities
Authors: Shawn Mondoux, Camilla Parpia, Matthew Hacker Teper, Sasha Litwin Quality Improvement (QI) is in the middle of a “market surge”....
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Fadi Bahodi
- Apr 26
- 6 min
HiQuiPs: Engaging Residents in QIPS – Current and Future Perspectives
HiQuiPs explores resident education on quality improvement, and describes major components that underline QI education in the field
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jocelynprice5
- Apr 12
- 5 min
HiQuiPs: Patient Safety Fundamentals - Reducing Pressure Injuries
The final installment 4-part series on patient safety fundamentals with the University Health Network!
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bagherzadehm
- Mar 29
- 5 min
HiQuiPs: Patient Safety Fundamentals - Reducing Patient Falls
Part 3 of our 4-part series on patient safety fundamentals with the University Health Network!
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dongjoolee
- Mar 15
- 6 min
HiQuiPs Patient Safety Fundamentals: Reducing Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections
Part 2 of our 4-part series on patient safety fundamentals with the University Health Network!
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Fadi Bahodi
- Feb 28
- 6 min
HiQuiPs: Reporting QI Results with Run Charts – Part 1
Authors: Ahmed Taher, Joseph Choi You are attending your first Quality Committee meeting in your ED. The team is discussing a project...
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Fadi Bahodi
- Feb 28
- 4 min
HiQuiPs: Role Variation and QI
Author: Ahmed Taher Welcome to another HiQuiPs post, where we discuss the concept of variability and its relation to QI processes. You...
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Fadi Bahodi
- Feb 28
- 7 min
HiQuiPs: QI and Patient Reported Measures
Authors: Samuel Vaillancourt, Ahmed Taher You are about to start a Quality Improvement (QI) project in your ED. You have noted that...
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Fadi Bahodi
- Feb 28
- 6 min
HiQuiPs: QI Implementation Part 2 –Choosing PDSA, Lean or Six Sigma?
Authors: Cori Atlin, Ahmed Taher, Shawn Mondoux, Lucas Chartier PDSA, Lean, and Six Sigma are three different frameworks that can be part...
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Fadi Bahodi
- Feb 28
- 5 min
HiQuiPs: QI Implementation Part 1 – Implementation Methodologies
Authors: Ahmed Taher, Shawn Mondoux, Lucas Chartier In this two-part series, we will take a deeper dive into several QI conceptual...
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vharish
- Feb 21
- 7 min
HiQuiPs: Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics and its Role in the Emergency Department
An introduction to key terms and concepts within health informatics.
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vharish
- Feb 21
- 5 min
HiQuiPs: Introduction to Virtual Care Part 2 – Virtual Processes
An outline of the key aspects of a virtual care program, including intake, triage, and the physician encounter.
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vharish
- Feb 21
- 5 min
HiQuiPs: Introduction to Virtual Care Part 1 – General Principles
An introduction to virtual care.
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erinvanallen452
- Feb 21
- 5 min
HiQuiPs: Better Measurement in QI
Author: Camilla Parpia, Samuel Vaillancourt You are getting handover at the beginning of a shift in the emergency department (ED) and...
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vharish
- Feb 21
- 5 min
HiQuiPs: Electronic Health Record Systems and the Emergency Department
An introduction to electronic health records and their basic functional components.
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vharish
- Feb 21
- 4 min
HiQuiPs: Using Computerized Physician Order Entry to Decrease Adverse Drug Events
An introduction to computerized physician order entry systems and how they can help prevent adverse drug events.
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