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Collaboration between Faculties of Medicine and Management

Date: May 11, 9:00 – 5:00

Place: Desautels Faculty of Management, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
1001 Sherbrooke Street W., room 645

The Emergency Department (ED) constitutes a main point of entry to the hospital and the challenges faced by ED administrative and clinical personnel are often symptoms of systematic problems at the hospital and system levels. Although ED operations have attracted the attention of researchers for more than 40 years, there is still much need for innovative solutions in dealing with problems pertaining to clinical and operational efficiency. The purpose of this workshop is to highlight the current state of research on ED operations and to contribute to the development of a research agenda. To this end, the workshop brings together the following list of speakers:

Brent Asplin, Emergency Medicine, Regions Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota: Stop Measuring Crowding and Start Measuring Patient Flow: Optimizing Patient Throughput

Ken Farion, Department of Emergency Services, Ottawa Hospital: Clinical Decision Support Systems for ED Presentations: Impacting the Patient, the Provider, the Emergency Health System?

Brian Rowe, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta: Frequency, Determinants and Impact of Overcrowding in Canada: A National Survey of Emergency Departments

Brian Schwartz, Sunnybrook Osler Centre for Prehospital Care, Toronto: Improving Access to Emergency Services: A System Commitment

David Sinreich, Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel: Improving ED Operations Using a Simulation-Based Decision Support System

Les Vertesi, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University: Emergency Department Congestion: How Much Complexity do Models Really need?

Greg Zaric, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario: Predictors of Workload in the Emergency Room: The POWER Study

There is no registration fee for the workshop. To register, please send an bkucuk [at] po-box.mcgill.ca (email) before May 5. The participant's affiliation and coordinates should be included in the email.

Organizers: Marc Afilalo, Michael Carter, Wojtek Michalowski and Vedat Verter