Closing the gap on healthcare quality for equity-deserving groups: a scoping review of equity-focused quality improvement interventions in medicine.

Introduction: Quality improvement (QI) efforts are critical to promoting health equity and mitigating disparities in healthcare outcomes. Equity-focused QI (EF-QI) interventions address the unique needs of equity-deserving groups and the root causes of disparities. This scoping review aims to identify themes from EF-QI interventions that improve the health of equity-deserving groups, to serve as a resource for researchers embarking on QI.

Systems-Based Practice in Graduate Medical Education: Evolving Toward an Ideal Future State.

Systems-based practice (SBP) was first introduced as a core competency in graduate medical education (GME) in 2002 by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education as part of the Outcomes Project. While inclusion of SBP content in GME has become increasingly common, there have also been well-documented stumbling blocks, including perceptions that SBP has eroded the amount of curricular time available for more medically focused competencies, is not relevant for some practice contexts, and is not introduced early enough in training. As a result, SBP learning experiences often feel disconnected from medical trainees' practical reality.

Using the relationship between brain tissue regional saturation of oxygen and mean arterial pressure to determine the optimal mean arterial pressure in patients following cardiac arrest: A pilot proof-of-concept study.

Introduction: Prospectively assess cerebral autoregulation and optimal mean arterial pressure (MAPOPT) using the dynamic relationship between MAP and regional saturation of oxygen (rSO2) using near-infrared spectroscopy.

Methods: Feasibility study of twenty patients admitted to the intensive care unit following a cardiac arrest. All patients underwent continuous rSO2 monitoring using the INVOS(®) cerebral oximeter.

Missed Opportunities for HIV Prophylaxis Among Emergency Department Patients With Occupational and Nonoccupational Body Fluid Exposures.

Study Objective: Exposures to HIV are frequently managed in the emergency department (ED) for assessment and potential initiation of HIV postexposure prophylaxis. Despite established guidelines, it is unclear whether patients with a nonoccupational exposure are managed similarly to patients with an occupational exposure.

Methods: This retrospective study used an administrative database to identify consecutive patients at a single ED with a discharge diagnosis of "blood or body fluid exposure" without sexual assault from April 1, 2007 to June 30, 2013.

Association between blood pressure and outcomes in patients after cardiac arrest: A systematic review.

Objective: Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury (HIBI) is a major cause of disability after cardiac arrest. HIBI leads to impaired cerebral autoregulation such that adequate cerebral perfusion becomes critically dependent on blood pressure. However, the optimal blood pressure after cardiac arrest remains unclear.

Building a Generation of Physician Advocates: The Case for Including Mandatory Training in Advocacy in Canadian Medical School Curricula.

There is an increasing focus on the social accountability of physicians as individuals, and of medicine itself. This has led to increasing emphasis on physician advocacy from a wide variety of institutions. The physician advocacy concept is now part of the Health Advocacy competency mandated by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.