TAHSN QIPS CoP

Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Community of Practice

The TAHSN Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) Community of Practice (CoP) is a partnership between Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network (TAHSN) hospitals and Toronto-based QIPS-focused groups, organizations and institutions. Its establishment was motivated by the need for a forum to support shared learning and the opportunity to take collective action to address system-wide concerns such as care inequities and patient safety. 

Join the TAHSN QIPS CoP

The goals of the TAHSN QIPS CoP are to:

Strengthen communication among members of the QIPS community through knowledge exchange and translation

Leverage unique strengths and areas of expertise within QIPS units, groups and organizations

Identify priority areas for collaborative and collective action and focused research and scholarship

Thematic Areas of Focus

In additional to the general TAHSN community, the TAHSN QIPS CoP began with 3 workstreams which were brought forward based on timely and relevant issues in QIPS. Smaller, more focused groups gathered in these workstreams to produce deliverables based on specific areas of focus. Over the years, these self-governed groups have generated tangible results that are aimed to elevate the healthcare system, within TAHSN and beyond. You can view the on-going work and tools for each workstream below.

Embedding Equity in Quality Improvement

The Advancing Equity Through QIPS began as a focused workstream of the TAHSN QIPS CoP in 2022. The goals for this working group were focused around three initiatives: 

  1. Improving language concordant care through increased use of professional interpretative services in General Internal Medicine to lead more equitable care
  2. Embedding EDI principles into QIPS education and training to address equity related concerns
  3. Research study exploring equity considerations in hospital safety event monitoring systems that could influence patient safety practices and policies
View the Equity Framework here

Data Sharing Pathway

The Data Sharing Pathway is a collaborative initiative driven by the TAHSN QIPS Community of Practice, TAHSN Research and TAHSN Legal. Its goal is to establish a streamlined, standardized approach to sharing Quality Improvement (QI) data across the TAHSN network. The development of this pathway marks a significant step toward harmonization by addressing both operational efficiency and risk mitigation. All 14 TAHSN hospitals have formally approved the TAHSN De-Identification Standard for QI data. Along with the data sharing agreement (DSA), the De-Identification Standard, the Data Sharing Pathway will form the foundation for secure, responsible, and collaborative data sharing within the network.

Learn more about the Data Sharing Pathway

Improving Patient Safety

 While keeping patients safe is the ultimate goal of every healthcare organization, many have their own way of classifying patient safety incidents, making it difficult to share learnings and track collective efforts over time. This work stream will build on an existing patient safety collaborative that, for more than three years, has harnessed the collective QIPS expertise across participating organizations to reduce preventable patient harm.
This work stream’s initial project will align patient safety incident classification using the Press Ganey/ Healthcare Performance Improvement Safety Events Classification system to develop a common taxonomy and approach to identifying preventable harm across TAHSN hospitals.
 

Workstream leads: Shadan Fallahi (Sinai Health),  Genny Ng (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre), Marie Pinard (Women’s College Hospital, until June 2025) Laura Pozzobon (University Health Network), Richard Wray (Sickkids)

Join the TAHSN QIPS CoP

By joining the TAHSN QIPS CoP, you will receive access to regular meetings and presentations, as well as the bi-monthly community bulletin. Members can choose to join the General CoP or a particular workstream. Currently only the focus area of Improving Patient Safety is open as an active workstream. The tools and outcomes from the Equity and Data Sharing areas of focus are available below.

 

Previous general TAHSN QIPS CoP meeting topics include: 

  • Multisite Delirium Prevention Initiative Enabled by AI-Driven Delirium Measurement Tool
  • Sustainable Health Systems
  • CPSO Hospital QI Partnership Program
  • Advancing Language Concordant Care at TAHSN hospitals
  • Building Organizational Capacity for QI
  • Ethical review of QI/QA at TAHSN hospitals
  • Scaling Up Proven QIPS Solutions
  • Collecting Health Equity Data
  • Data Sharing for QI Projects
  • Addressing Serious Safety Events
  • Equity in Action

Topic suggestions or inquiries can be sent to: camille.denbigh@sickkids.ca

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