Congratulations to UBC RCPS-EM Resident Dr. Andrei Karpov who recently won the Top CAEP Resident Research Abstract Award! The project is titled: Validation of Trigger Tools and the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System – Cooperative Adverse Drug Events Surveillance Program (NEISS-CADES) algorithm for Identification of Adverse Drug Events in Emergency Department Health Records.
This was a planned sub-study of a prospective study conducted at Vancouver General Hospital and was conducted in collaboration with DEM faculty member, Dr. Corinne Hohl. The investigators applied trigger tools and the NEISS-CADES algorithm to included patient records and evaluated them in comparison to adverse drug events that were prospectively identified in these records by clinical pharmacists to calculate the sensitivity and specificity of trigger tools for identifying ADEs. Dr. Karpov will be presenting his findings at the 2014 CAEP conference in June.