Drs. Liam Brunham, Nadia Khan, and Simon Pimstone are co-authors on a new publication on the Study to Avoid Cardiovascular Events in BC (SAVE BC), a prospective, observational study screening relatives of patients newly diagnosed with premature ASCVD for risk factors of cardiovascular disease.
Brunham, L. R., Lynch, K., English, A., Sutherland, R., Weng, J., Cho, R., … & McManus, B. (2018). The Design and Rationale of SAVE BC: The Study to Avoid Vascular Events in British Columbia. Clinical Cardiology. Epub 2018 Apr 10. LINK MEDIA
Drs. Penny Tam and John Staples, with former GIM residents, are co-authors on a review article on unplanned hospital readmissions in BC. In 2016, British Columbia’s 30-day risk-adjusted readmission rate of 9.7% was higher than the national average of 9.1%.
Shutter C, Hurlburt A, Tam P, Staples JA. Unplanned hospital readmissions in British Columbia. BCMJ. 2018 Jun;60(5):263-67. LINK
Drs. Penny Tam and Aman Nijjar are co-first authors on research recently published in PLoS One testing if a multi-faceted intervention will improve rates of handoff in an internal medicine inpatient setting. This study addresses an important question of whether handoffs affect clinical outcomes as measured through medical errors, frequency of patients requiring higher level of care overnight, and in-hospital mortality. The intervention did not result in a significant improvement in clinical outcomes, however handoffs remain an important patient safety issue and novel methods for handoffs need to be explored.
Tam P, Nijjar AP, Fok M, Little C, Shingina A, Bittman J, Raghavan R, Khan NA. Structured patient handoff on an internal medicine ward: A cluster randomized control trial. PLoS One. 2018 Apr 19;13(4):e0195216. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195216. eCollection 2018. LINK
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