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Do Combined Pharmacist and Prescriber Efforts on Medication Reconciliation Reduce Postdischarge Patient Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Readmissions?

Author:
Michelle Baker, BScPhm
Chaim M. Bell, MD, PhD
Wei Xiong, MSc
Edward Etchells, MD, MSc
Peter G. Rossos, MD, MBA
Kaveh G. Shojania, MD
Kelly Lane, BSc
Tim Tripp, BSc, MLIS
Mary Lam, BSc
Kimindra Tiwana, BScPhm
Derek Leong, BScPhm
Gary Wong, BScPhm
Jin-Hyeun Huh, BScPhm
Emily Musing, MHSc
Olavo Fernandes, PharmD

1University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3Department of Medicine-University of Toronto, Toronto...

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Does the Week-End Justify the Means?

Author:
Kieran L. Quinn, MD, MSc
Chaim M. Bell, MD, PhD

1Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2Department of Medicine, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.*...

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Impact of patient-centered discharge tools: A systematic review

Author:
Karen Okrainec, MD, MSc
Davina Lau, BSc
Howard B. Abrams, MD
Shoshanna Hahn-Goldberg, PhD
Ronak Brahmbhatt, MBBS, MPH
Tai Huynh, MBA
Kenneth Lam, MD
Chaim M. Bell, MD, PhD

1University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 3OpenLab, University Health...

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The plan-do-study-act cycle and data display

Author:
Natasha Bollegala, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Kalpesh Patel, MD
Jeffrey D. Mosko, MD, MSc
Michael Bernstein, MD
Mayur Brahmania, MD
Louis Liu, MD, PhD
A. Hillary Steinhart, MD, MSc
Samuel S. Silver, MD
Chaim M. Bell, MD, PhD
Geoffrey C. Nguyen, MD, PhD
Adam V. Weizman, MD, MSc
Publish date: December 5, 2016

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Launching a quality improvement initiative

Author:
Adam V. Weizman, MD, MSc
Jeffrey Mosko, MD, MSc
Natasha Bollegala, MD, MSc
Michael Bernstein, MD
Mayur Brahmania, MD
Louis Liu, MD, PhD
A. Hillary Steinhart, MD, MSc
Samuel S. Silver
Chaim M. Bell, MD, PhD
Geoffrey C. Nguyen, MD, PhD
Publish date: October 27, 2016

This installment describes the infrastructure, personnel, and structure needed to approach an identified problem within a practice.