Use of quality improvement methods to enhance implementation of a mental health care bundle in a pediatric emergency department.

Objectives: We used quality improvement methods to implement a care bundle for children presenting to a pediatric emergency department (ED) with mental health concerns. A bundle novelty was that it included an option for assessment in a partnered clinic, not in the ED, to families of children assessed as having no medical or safety concerns. The primary aim of this study was to establish successful implementation of the bundle prior to studying its impact.

Introducing an innovative model of acute paediatric mental health and addictions care to paediatric emergency departments: a protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study.

Introduction: Children and youth with mental health and addiction crises are a vulnerable patient group that often are brought to the hospital for emergency department care. We propose to evaluate the effect of a novel, acute care bundle that standardises a patient-centred approach to care.

Methods And Analysis: Two paediatric emergency departments in Alberta, Canada are involved in this prospective, pragmatic, 29-month interventional quasi-experimental study.

The most effective strategy for recruiting a pregnancy cohort: a tale of two cities.

Background: Pregnant women were recruited into the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) study in two cities in Alberta, Calgary and Edmonton. In Calgary, a larger proportion of women obtain obstetrical care from family physicians than from obstetricians; otherwise the cities have similar characteristics. Despite similarities of the cities, the recruitment success was very different.