Introducing ED-PATCH
Emergency Department Patient-Activated Transition from Care to Home (ED-PATCH) is a discharge communication tool that is activated and managed by patients or their caregivers to record important information shared during the ED visit.
Patients and caregivers access ED-PATCH in the waiting room on their mobile device and use it to track important information throughout their visit, including details about medications, tests, and instructions for what to do after returning home.
The information is checked by a healthcare provider, and patients and caregivers can access the summary of the visit after they leave.
ED-PATCH may soon be available at an ED near you!
The ED-PATCH Trial
The ED-PATCH team has been awarded funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to run a trial of the tool over the next five years. The goal is to evaluate the effectiveness of ED-PATCH using an interrupted time series and to better understand the context for implementation of ED-PATCH in Canadian emergency practice settings.
We will use a concurrent embedded mixed methods hybrid type 1 design with an integrated knowledge translation approach where we will work with patient and public partners, healthcare providers, and health system administrators.
The ED-PATCH team has been awarded funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to run a trial of the tool over the next five years. The goal is to evaluate the effectiveness of ED-PATCH using an interrupted time series and to better understand the context for implementation of ED-PATCH in Canadian emergency practice settings.
We will use a concurrent embedded mixed methods hybrid type 1 design with an integrated knowledge translation approach where we will work with patient and public partners, healthcare providers, and health system administrators.
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