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Assisted Dying Resource and Assessment Team (ADRAT)
In the initial three years following the legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying (2016) William Osler Health System (Osler) had created relevant policies, pathways, order sets, and had established and furnished a designated MAiD room. Despite these efforts, Osler...
Read MoreEthics Quality Improvement Projects (EQIPs)
Typically, clinical/ organizational consultations are core activities of healthcare Ethicists. Clinical consultations tend to deal with challenges involving a particular patient, while organizational consultations tend to deal with challenges faced by the organization...
Read MoreSimulation: Supporting Ontario Teams Transitioning to Team-Based Models (TBM)
Challenge • September 28, 2020, the Premier announces that Ontario has now entered Wave 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic. • The Ontario Critical Care COVID Command Centre has recommended augmenting critical care teams by implementing a team-based approach. • Time-sensitive:...
Read MoreHospital-based Violence Intervention Program – Breaking the Cycle of Violence with Empathy (BRAVE) Program
Research indicates that young people who are violently injured by stabbing or gunshot are nearly twice as likely to have a subsequent violent injury requiring hospital treatment within two years compared to their counterparts with non-violent injuries. Hospital-based...
Read MoreSupporting Staff COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence and Uptake
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC) recognizes the importance of immunization of staff members in order to protect themselves, their colleagues and their patients. Despite the supporting evidence, many health care staff remain hesitant to get vaccinated against...
Read MorePeer Support & Trauma Response Program (PSTR)
The healthcare environment presents challenges for staff unique to this context. PSTR was launched in 2018 to promote the psychological health and safety of staff across the hospital. The program responds to need for wide-ranging, confidential, and accessible support...
Read MoreIn Chair 4 Meals: Aspiration Prevention and the Importance of Positioning for Post-operative Patients
Post-operative aspiration can cause complications like re-intubation, pneumonia, and can quickly become life threatening if a person is unable to get enough oxygen. After four aspiration-related deaths on the surgical oncology inpatient unit in the summer of 2017, an...
Read MoreHydrate While You Wait
Hydrate While You Wait is a pre-operative hydration program that was first piloted on two surgical wards at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in February 2019. The program is comprised of two main components – a clinical pathway and corresponding medical directive for...
Read MoreHand Hygiene Improvement Methods Preventing And Controlling Transmission (HH IMPACT) Group Electronic Monitoring
While hand hygiene (HH) rates have been consistently linked to patient safety and controlling rates of nosocomial infection, traditional, direct observation methods of measuring HH are highly subject to the Hawthorne effect, and even with extensive auditing programs,...
Read MoreCOVID-19 Mobile Vaccination Strategy in High-Incident Neighbourhoods: A Distributive Leadership Approach to Accelerate Collective Local Health Impact
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated systemic health inequities and disproportionally impacted older adults and residents in racialized urban neighbourhoods – especially those with high concentrations of essential workers, multigenerational family households, visible...
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Health Standards Organization (HSO) and its affiliate, Accreditation Canada, have been identifying and publishing Leading Practices in the Leading Practices Library for over 15 years.
A Leading Practice is an innovative, people-centred, evidence-informed practice that has been implemented by teams in an organization. The leading practice has demonstrated a positive change related to safe and reliable care/service, accessible and appropriate care/service, and/or integrated care/service.
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