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Andrew McDonald

Researcher at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Publications -  6
Citations -  510

Andrew McDonald is an academic researcher from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Patient safety & Acute care. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications receiving 264 citations.

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Comparative economic analyses of patient safety improvement strategies in acute care: a systematic review

TL;DR: Pharmacist-led medication reconciliation, the Keystone ICU intervention for central line-associated bloodstream infections, chlorhexidine for vascular catheter site care, and standard surgical sponge counts were economically attractive strategies for improving patient safety.
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The economic burden of patient safety targets in acute care: a systematic review

TL;DR: There are wide variations in the estimates of economic burden due to differences in study methods and methodologic quality, and greater attention to methodologic standards for economic evaluations in patient safety is needed.
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Expanding the scope of Critical Care Rapid Response Teams: a feasible approach to identify adverse events. A prospective observational cohort

TL;DR: RRT clinicians provide a complementary and more sensitive mechanism than traditional safety reporting systems to identify possible AEs in hospitals and this methodology detected twice as many AEs as the hospital's safety reporting system.
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Identifying Factors That May Influence Decision-Making Related to the Distribution of Patients During a Mass Casualty Incident.

TL;DR: Agreement from this formative study suggests that certain factors are influential to decision-making related to the distribution of patients during a mass casualty incident.