Patient Safety and System Resilience in Emergency Care
Clinical Care, Emergency Systems, Prevention
Innovation Leader
Vision
No patient suffers harm from emergency care in British Columbia.
Current Activities
- Iterative mapping of the resilience profile of an urban emergency department (St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver). View the SPH ED Resilience Assessment – Mar. 2019
- Monthly inter-professional department meetings for dialogue and feedback
- Refining a predictive analytics forecasting tool for emergency department operational demand
- Using real-time data to calibrate forecasting
Short Term Goals
- Evaluate the adapted Resilience Analysis Grid© (Hollnagel, 2010) – a strategic framework to enhance system safety and resilient performance in risk critical industries – for emergency healthcare
- Monitor and map the resilience profile of an urban emergency department over time
- Collaborate with international and interdisciplinary researchers to evaluate the adapted Resilience Analysis Grid in other healthcare systems
Long Term Goals
- Create safety for emergency patients in BC by fostering the cornerstone potentials of system resilience:
- Anticipate what might happen
- Monitor what is happening
- Respond to what is happening
- Learn from what happens
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