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Samuel Vaillancourt

Physician, Emergency Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto
Verified email at utoronto.ca
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[HTML][HTML] Big data in global health: improving health in low-and middle-income countries

R Wyber, S Vaillancourt, W Perry… - Bulletin of the World …, 2015 - SciELO Public Health
Over the last decade, a massive increase in data collection and analysis has occurred in
many fields. In the health sector, however, there has been relatively little progress in data …

Global health in Canadian medical education: current practices and opportunities

…, B Ohata, A Kittler, S ter Kuile, S Vaillancourt… - Academic …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Purpose Globalization is altering health and health care. At the same time, prospective and
current medical students are increasingly requesting global health training and creating …

Updated framework on quality and safety in emergency medicine

…, LB Chartier, F Lecky, S Vaillancourt… - Emergency medicine …, 2020 - emj.bmj.com
Objectives Quality and safety of emergency care is critical. Patients rely on emergency
medicine (EM) for accessible, timely and high-quality care in addition to providing a ‘safety-net’ …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy of self-reported COVID-19 vaccination status compared with a public health vaccination registry in Québec: observational diagnostic study

…, G Clark, L Grant, S Vaillancourt… - JMIR Public Health …, 2023 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background The accuracy of self-reported vaccination status is important to guide real-world
vaccine effectiveness studies and policy making in jurisdictions where access to electronic …

Patients' perspectives on outcomes of care after discharge from the emergency department: a qualitative study

S Vaillancourt, MB Seaton, MJ Schull… - Annals of emergency …, 2017 - Elsevier
Study objective Much effort has been expended to understand what care experiences
patients value in the emergency department (ED), yet little is known about which outcomes …

[HTML][HTML] Treatments, resource utilization, and outcomes of COVID-19 patients presenting to emergency departments across pandemic waves: an observational study …

…, E Mercier, K Chandra, P Davis, S Vaillancourt… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) evolved between pandemic
waves. Our objective was to compare treatments, acute care utilization, and outcomes of …

Development of the Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network population-based registry: a methodology study

…, I Martin, R Mohindra, DK Ting, S Vaillancourt… - … Open Access Journal, 2021 - cmajopen.ca
Background: Emergency physicians lack high-quality evidence for many diagnostic and
treatment decisions made for patients with suspected or confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (…

Intensive point‐of‐care ultrasound training with long‐term follow‐up in a cohort of Rwandan physicians

…, MM Leo, AF Murray, S Vaillancourt… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective We delivered a point‐of‐care ultrasound training programme in a resource‐limited
setting in Rwanda, and sought to determine participants' knowledge and skill retention. We …

Sensitivity and diagnostic yield of the first SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid amplification test performed for patients presenting to the hospital

CM Hohl, JP Hau, S Vaillancourt, J Grant… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Early and accurate diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 is essential to initiate
appropriate treatment and infection control and prevention measures among patients presenting …

Quality improvement primer part 1: preparing for a quality improvement project in the emergency department

…, AHY Cheng, AS Stang, S Vaillancourt - Canadian Journal of …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Emergency medicine (EM) providers work in a fast-paced and often hectic environment that
has a high risk for patient safety incidents and gaps in the quality of care. These challenges …