Recommendations for patient-centered emergency care.

Introduction: Patient-centred care is more than just an aspiration, it represents a fundamental shift in the way healthcare must be delivered. Patient-centred emergency care is important for improving the patient and clinician experience and is essential for optimizing health outcomes. Creating a patient-centred emergency department emphasizes the importance of the patient's experience, preferences, and values.

Perspectives of healthcare workers on the integration of overdose detection technologies in acute care settings.

Background: People who use drugs (PWUD) face disproportionately high rates of hospitalizations and patient-initiated discharge (leaving against medical advice), explained by a combination of stigma, withdrawal, judgment, blame, and improper pain management. In addition, evidence has shown that despite abstinence-based policies within healthcare settings, PWUD continue to use their substances in healthcare environments often hidden away from hospital staff, resulting in fatalities. Various novel overdose detection technologies (ODTs) have been developed with early adoption in a few settings to reduce the morbidity and mortality from risky substance use patterns within healthcare environments.

Electric scooter related injuries in Calgary emergency departments.

Objectives: Electric scooters (e-scooters) have contributed to a rise in injury burden and emergency department (ED) utilization since their local introduction 3 years ago. This study is a novel collaboration between the City of Calgary's Department of Transportation and emergency medicine researchers to better understand the nature and frequencies of e-scooter injuries. It quantifies the incidence and characteristics of e-scooter related injuries treated in Calgary EDs/urgent care centres (UCCs).

Exploring the experience of boarded psychiatric patients in adult emergency departments.

Background: This study quantifies the frequency of adverse events (AEs) experienced by psychiatric patients while boarded in the emergency department (ED) and describes those events over a broad range of categories.

Methods: A retrospective chart review (RCR) of adult psychiatric patients aged 18-55 presenting to one of four Calgary EDs (Foothills Medical Centre (FMC), the Peter Lougheed Centre (PLC), the Rockyview General Hospital (RGH), and South Health Campus (SHC)) who were subsequently admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit between January 1, 2019 and May 15, 2019 were eligible for review. A test of association was used to determine the odds of an independent variable being associated with an adverse event.

A Patient-focused Information Design Intervention to Support the Minor Traumatic Brain Injuries (mTBI) Choosing Wisely Canada Recommendation.

Introduction The first Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) recommendation for Emergency Medicine states: "Don't order CT head scans in adults and children who have suffered minor head injuries (unless positive for a validated head injury clinical decision rule)". In order to provide patients with information on the risks and benefits of computed tomography (CT) scans in minor traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) and to encourage discussions between patients and their doctor, we designed a patient-focused mTBI infographic for the emergency department (ED). Methods Stakeholders worked with content experts to co-design the infographic, which was posted in two emergency department (ED) waiting rooms.

Single-Use Detergent Sacs: A Retrospective Multicenter Canadian Review of Emergency Department Cases.

Background: Single-use detergent sacs (SUDS) are widely used in North America and Europe with emerging literature on their toxicity. This is the first Canadian multicenter study aimed to quantify and compare SUDS exposures to traditional detergent exposures.

Methods: A retrospective review of the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program databases was conducted at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary and the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton.

Exploring the experience of chronic pain among female Survival Sex Workers: a qualitative study.

Background: The prevalence of self-identified chronic pain in Canadian adults is approximately one in five people. Marginalization and addictions have been shown to complicate chronic pain in vulnerable populations. This study aimed to understand the experience of chronic pain among female Survival Sex Workers in Vancouver's downtown eastside (DTES).

Prevalence and indications for video recording in the health care setting in North American and British paediatric hospitals.

Background: Health care video recording has demonstrated value in education, performance assessment, quality improvement and clinical care.

Methods: A survey was administered to paediatric hospitals in Great Britain, Canada and the United States. Heads of departments or delegates from six areas (emergency departments [EDs], operating rooms, paediatric intensive care units [PICUs], neonatal intensive care units [NICUs], simulation centres and neuroepilepsy units) were asked 10 questions about the prevalence, indications and process issues of video recording.

Parental attitudes to digital recording: A paediatric hospital survey.

Aim: Digital recording is ubiquitous in the community. Its objectivity, permanence and utility in medical education have led to increasing use in health-care settings. As participants in this process, the perspectives of families are important to inform practice.

A cross-sectional survey of levels of care and response mechanisms for evolving critical illness in hospitalized children.

Objectives: Recognition and treatment of evolving critical illness is a fundamental element of hospital care. Hospital systems should triage patients to receive appropriate levels of care. We describe here the levels of care, the frequency of near or actual cardiopulmonary arrest (code-blue events), identification mechanisms, and responses to evolving critical illness in hospitalized children.