CCFP-EM CQI Project

Each year the incoming EM residents will be responsible for the design and implementation of a CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement) project. The project will take the form of a chart audit pertaining to various topics of interest in emergency medicine. Examples may include: 1) time from presentation to delivery of thrombolytic agents for acute ST elevation myocardial infarction, 2) time from presentation to the delivery of antibiotics in the patient presenting with sepsis, and 3) choice of out patient intravenous antibiotics in patients with cellulitis.

The resident will design the question, review applicable charts and synthesize data, and deliver the information in a report or presentation format. This will help to illustrate and support CQI as an ongoing necessity for the practicing academic emergency physician.