Calgary Health Region

Esmail, R., Duchscherer, G., Giesbrecht, J., King, J., Ritchie, P., Zuege, D., Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in the Calgary Health Region A Canadian Success Story, Healthcare Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2008, pp. 129-136. 

The Calgary Health Region Transforming the Management of Safety... 

Jack Davis, Calgary Health Region Jan M. Davies, University of Calgary Ward Flemons, Calgary Health Region... 

Table 4.1 Increase in population in the Calgary Health Region, 2001-2005...

Calgary Health Region (2005), Leading the Way. Report to the Commimity. http // www.calgaryhealthregion.ca, accessed 6 Jamrary 2006. 

Carmella Duchscherer and Glenn McRae Calgary Health Region... 

Figure 7.3 The Calgary Health Region s safety framework...

Despite these many flaws in the official Incident Report system, the Region was able to identify and eorreet maity system safety deficiencies. Much of this success has been the result of the vigorous activity of the Regional Critical Incident Review Committee (RCIRC). As a Board of the Calgary Health Region designated (Quality... 

Of course, this new focus requires a definition of harm, and the Calgary Health Region has adopted the definition from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Harm is defined as an imexpected or normally avoidable outcome that negatively affects the patient s health and/or quality of life, which occurs (or has occurred) in the course of the patient s illness (CPSO 2003). 

We thank Linda Perkins RN MSc, Senior Consultant, Measurement and Evaluation, of Quality, Safety and Health Information, Calgary Health Region for her comprehensive contribution to the review of the safety reporting system. 

Heuristic Evaluation was used as a first step to evaluate the usability of three IV pumps for the Calgary Health Region. According to Nielsen (2003), three to five evaluators provide the best cost-benefit tradeoff. We chose to have five evaluators inspect each pump independently. Evaluators judged the human factors compliance of each pump with a set of human factors design guidelines. These guidelines included ... 

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