Background: In 2007, an electronic repository called the Ontario Laboratories Information
System (OLIS) was introduced to allow health care providers timely access to laboratory test …

Objective To define geographical regions (forward sortation areas; FSAs) in Southwestern
Ontario, Canada from which patients would reliably present to a hospital with linked …

Methods Using the 2014 NEDI-USA database, we surveyed all New England EDs. We
individually matched NEDI EDs with corresponding EDs in the AHA and CMS. A “group …

Aims The demand for test requests from general practice to laboratory services remains
high. Tests performed at the point of care could reduce turnaround time and speed up …

Point of care (POC) laboratory testing is used to improve emergency department (ED)
throughput but often overuses resources by duplicating formal laboratory testing. This study …

Background: Electronic health records provide clinically rich data for research and quality
improvement work. However, the data are often unstructured text, may be inconsistently …

Emergency department (ED) overcrowding and prolonged patient length of stay (LOS) is an
increasing problem in most American hospitals. Some reports in the literature have …

Objectives Emergency department (ED) data are often used to address questions about
access to and quality of emergency care. Our objective was to compare one of the most …

Objective To examine current trends in the characteristics of patients visiting California
emergency departments (EDs) in order to better direct the allocation of acute care resources …

Purpose Developing electronic clinical data into a common data model posed substantial
challenges unique from those encountered with administrative data. We present here the …