The PricewaterhouseCoopers Lectureship

We laughed, we cried: patient safety and quality improvement research

Presented by: Dr. Kaveh G. Shojania, MD
Director, University of Toronto Centre for Patient Safety, Canada Research Chair in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Kaveh Shojania is an associate professor of medicine and director of the Centre for Patient Safety at the University of Toronto, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. His work has appeared in leading journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Annals of Internal Medicine. In 2004, Dr. Shojania received one of the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Awards from the U.S. Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the National Quality Forum for work in patient safety that has had an impact at a national level.

Though his content expertise centres on patient safety, Dr. Shojania also has extensive experience with evidence synthesis, having published numerous systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and designing the search filter for systematic reviews used by the National Library of Medicine in PubMed. Dr. Shojania’s scholarly activities have also extended to his clinical work. He has authored two articles in the Rational Clinical Exam in JAMA and twice served as the discussant for articles in the Clinical Problem Solving series in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Shojania also acts as Updates Editor for Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine, overseeing updates to the online version of one of the major textbooks in Internal Medicine.

Objectives:

• understand study designs suited to studies of quality improvement interventions
• appreciate the issues that affect outcome measurement in quality improvement studies
• recognize analytic issues unique to QI research

This event is an accredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada