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Ottawa COPD Risk Scale could save Ontario $115M over 3 years
February 18, 2015
An
economic analysis
recently published by the Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario (CAHO) finds that the Ottawa COPD Risk Scale, developed by Dr.
Ian Stiell
and colleagues, could save Ontario’s health-care system as much as $115M over three years. The decision tool improves patient safety by identifying those patients in Emergency with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) who need to be admitted to hospital and those who could safely be sent home. The Ottawa COPD Risk Scale, published by CMAJ in 2014 (see
release
), is one of two innovations from The Ottawa Hospital selected by CAHO for detailed economic analysis (the other analysis, still in progress, is on Dr.
Jeff Perry
’s
decision rule for subarachnoid hemorrhage
). Our two recently hired health economists, Dr.
Kednapa Thavorn
and Chris Cameron, provided an economic perspective that helped convince CAHO to champion these innovations.
About the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
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Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
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and is an affiliated institute of the
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, closely associated with its faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences. The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute includes more than 1,700 scientists, clinical investigators, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staff conducting research to improve the understanding, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human disease. Support our research. Give to the
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Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
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