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. 2018 Jan 4;10(1):e2022.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.2022.

The British Columbia Emergency Medicine Network: A Paradigm Shift in a Provincial System of Emergency Care

Riyad B Abu-Laban  1 , Sharla Drebit  1 , Ronald R Lindstrom  1 , Chantel Archibald  1 , Kim Eggers  2 , Kendall Ho  1 , Afshin Khazei  1 , Adam Lund  3 , Carolyn MacKinnon  1 , Ray Markham  4 , Julian Marsden  1 , Ed Martin  2 , Jim Christenson  1
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The British Columbia Emergency Medicine Network: A Paradigm Shift in a Provincial System of Emergency Care

Riyad B Abu-Laban et al. Cureus. .

Abstract

As generalists, emergency practitioners face challenges in providing state-of-the-art care owing to the broad spectrum of practice and the rapid rate of new knowledge generation. Networks have become increasingly prevalent in health care, and it was in this backdrop, and the resulting opportunity to advance evidence-informed emergency care in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC), that a new "Emergency Medicine Network" (EM Network) was launched in 2017. The EM Network consists of four programs, each led by a physician with expertise and a track record in the domain: (1) Clinical Resources; (2) Innovation; (3) Continuing Professional Development; and (4) Real-time Support. This paper provides an overview of the EM Network, including its background, purpose, programs, anticipated evolution, and impact on the BC health care system.

Keywords: clinical resources; continuing professional development; emergency medicine; health services; healthcare technology; innovation; knowledge translation; network; quality improvement; real-time support.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared financial relationships, which are detailed in the next section.

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Figure 1. BC Emergency Medicine Network programs
BC: British Columbia
Figure 2
Figure 2. Vision, mission, and primary goals of the BC Emergency Medicine Network
BC: British Columbia
Figure 3
Figure 3. Website content of the BC Emergency Medicine Network
BC: British Columbia; EM: Emergency Medicine
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