Background: In Canada, as in the US, hospital medicine has become an increasingly important staffing model innovation. Canadian hospitalists are typically Family Physicians and General Internists. In an attempt to advance its hospitalist staffing model into a care model innovation as well,  the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region (RQHR) implemented Canada’s first Accountable Care Unit (ACU) [...]

Background: The advent of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) has changed the face of medical documentation. Illegibility and absence of data have all but disappeared, and EHRs can foster thoughtful assessments by providing a platform to craft differential diagnoses. However, EHRs have also introduced features like “copy and paste” and “blow in” templates that can [...]

Background: Audit and feedback improves clinical care by highlighting the gap between current and ideal practice.  Electronic health record (EHR) data can provide contemporaneous data for quality improvement but has not yet been studied extensively.  We conducted a randomized trial to determine whether audit and feedback leveraging EHR data with modern web-based dashboards could improve [...]