Physician perspectives on providing virtual emergency department care for equity-deserving populations.

Objective: Patients from equity-deserving populations, such as those who are from racialized communities, the 2SLGBTQIA + community, who are refugees or immigrants, and/or who have a disability, may experience a unique set of challenges accessing and receiving care through virtual models. The objective of this qualitative study was to describe physician perspectives on their experiences providing care to patients from equity-deserving communities and their family members who received care from a Virtual Emergency Department (ED) in Toronto, Canada.

Methods: We interviewed 14 Virtual ED physicians from different sites across the Greater Toronto Area.

Establishing methodological standards for the development of artificial intelligence-based Clinical Decision Support in emergency medicine.

Objective: Artificial intelligence (AI) offers opportunities for managing the complexities of clinical care in the emergency department (ED), and Clinical Decision Support has been identified as a priority application. However, there is a lack of published guidance on how to rigorously develop and evaluate these tools. We sought to answer the question, "What methodological standards should be applied to the development of AI-based Clinical Decision Support tools in the ED?".

The Priorities of End Users of Emergency Department Electronic Health Records: Modified Delphi Study.

Background: The needs of the emergency department (ED) pose unique challenges to modern electronic health record (EHR) systems. A diverse case load of high-acuity, high-complexity presentations, and ambulatory patients, all requiring multiple transitions of care, creates a rich environment through which to critically examine EHRs.

Objective: This investigation aims to capture and analyze the perspective of end users of EHR about the strengths, limitations, and future priorities for EHR in the setting of the ED.

Demographic characteristics, outcomes and experience of patients using virtual urgent care services from 14 emergency department led sites in Ontario.

Introduction: As part of the COVID-19 pandemic response, the Ontario Ministry of Health funded a virtual care pilot program intended to support emergency department (ED) diversion of patients with low acuity complaints and reduce the need for face-to-face contact. The objective was to describe the demographic characteristics, outcomes and experience of patients using the provincial pilot program.

Methods: This was a prospective cohort study of patients using virtual care services provided by 14 ED-led pilot sites from December 2020 to September 2021.

Designs, facilitators, barriers, and lessons learned during the implementation of emergency department led virtual urgent care programs in Ontario, Canada.

Introduction: Virtual patient care has seen incredible growth since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. To provide greater access to safe and timely urgent care, in the fall of 2020, the Ministry of Health introduced a pilot program of 14 virtual urgent care (VUC) initiatives across the province of Ontario. The objective of this paper was to describe the overall design, facilitators, barriers, and lessons learned during the implementation of seven emergency department (ED) led VUC pilot programs in Ontario, Canada.

Incisionless otoplasty: a reliable and replicable technique for the correction of prominauris.

Importance: This study evaluates the postoperative outcomes achieved with incisionless otoplasty for the correction of prominauris.

Objective: To determine whether incisionless otoplasty is a reliable and replicable technique in correcting prominauris.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This study consisted of a retrospective electronic medical record review for 72 patients undergoing incisionless otoplasty for the correction of prominauris by a single surgeon from November 2006 to April 2013.