Center for Safety Research

CONTINUOUS systems

CONtinuous Trainee and Inpatient Needs Understood, Outcomes Understood and Solutions for systems evaluated

Acute care is a 24/7/365 process. Acute illness is unpredictable.

Hospital-systems balance multiple mandates:

Efficient use of limited healthcare resources
Providing high-quality care for todays patients
Delivering high-quality education for the independent healthcare professionals of the tomorrow’s patients
Attending to the wellbeing and longevity of healthcare professional workforce

Informing selection of resident schedules and corresponding mitigation strategies for acute inpatient care and resident education
Describing wellbeing outcomes and interventions to improve the wellbeing of healthcare professionals
Identifying and evaluating the function of hospital systems as vehicles to provide safe, high quality care

The projects of the CONTINUOUS system program of research are to help address these divergent, and potentially conflicting stakeholder needs.

Our work has been funded by Canadian Institutes of Healthcare Research, and includes projects of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.

Trainees are an essential part of the continuous healthcare system.

Intensive Care Unit Resident Scheduling trial

Program of Wellbeing, Ethical Practice and Resilience in healthcare professionals