Strategic Clinical Improvement Publications and Posters

• Adam CY, Shatto J, Mathura P, Zhang J, Chow EY. Evaluating additional risk factors with the Skin and UV Neoplasia Transplant Risk Assessment Calculator in Canadian heart and lung transplant recipients. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 2026 Jul 15.
• Dyck GJ, Kharel A, Lowe SA, Lee AD, Mathura P, Dytoc M. Improving Sun-Safe Practices for Elementary School Children. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery.: 12034754261436039.
• Khan S, Ashrafinia N, Mathura P, Puttagunta L, Girgis S, Thiesen A, Zhang J, Nilsson JE, Wasilenko S, Zepeda-Gomez S, Sandha G. Optimizing tissue acquisition to improve the diagnostic yield of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle biopsy of solid masses: a quality improvement initiative. Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. 2026 Jun 18:gwag022.
• Kharel A, He R, Abdi P, Sanaee M, Lowe SA, Mathura P, Dytoc M. Expert-Led Virtual Support for Vulvar Lichen Sclerosus: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery.:12034754261467041.
• Mathura P, Lategan I, Maguire D, Kassam J, Vong J, Woods J, Kassam N, Mudiayi D. Hallway Medicine: A convergent mixed methods study on perspectives from the frontlines of care. Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2026 Mar 1;21(1):50-63.
• Mathura P, Shi XA, Marini S, Kassam N. From patient to planet: integrating climate impact into a hospital medicine initiative reducing blood urea nitrogen testing. BMJ Open Quality. 2026 Jul 21;15(3).
• Mathura P, Wenzel A, Dennett L, Kassam N. Implementing in hospital technology-assisted mobility initiatives: A scoping review. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2026 Jan 25.
• Nanda K, Rasmuson J, Lau JT, Mathura P, Sia WW. Assessing the Impact of an Undergraduate Medical Student Volunteer Hospital Program: Active Mind Active Body. The Clinical Teacher. 2026 Oct;23(5):e70480.

• Carr F, Mathura P, Symon J. Ending PJ paralysis for hospitalised patients: a quality improvement initiative. BMJ Open Quality. 2025 Apr 21;14(2).
• Knaub M, Leon S, Pokharel S, Kiryanova V, Giroux K, Khanna P, Rychtera A, Duquette D, Mathura P, Verdin N, Ambasta A. (2025), Using Human-Centred Design to Codesign Patient Engagement Tools With a Patient Advisory Council: Successes and Challenges. Health Expectations, 28: e70230. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70230
• Howe A, Cheema SK, Saleh F, Jeerakathil T, Mathura P, Kate M. Augmenting the Efficacy of the Initial Patient Visit to the Stroke Prevention Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2025 Dec 11;14(24):8780.
• Mathura P, Grasdal M, Marini S, Podder M, Kassam N. Optimizing Intervention Sequences to Reduce Physician Blood Urea Nitrogen Test Overuse: A Multi-Hospital Analysis. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2025 Apr 24:1-7.
• Mathura P, Pascheto I, Ringrose J, Ramsay G. What about physician wellness? Impact of a quality improvement intervention. BMJ Open Quality. 2025 Jan 31;14(1).
• Nanda K, Yacyshyn E. Navigating the Roadblocks: National Patient and Provider Survey on Barriers to Healthcare and Medication Access for Patients with Vasculitis. The Journal of Rheumatology 2025 May 29 (Vol. 52, No. Suppl 2, pp. 100-100). 
• Rai J, Tay J, Mathura P, Damant R, Zhang J, Shewchuk L, Hirji A. Rates of Significant Preventable Adverse Events in Hospitalized Patients With Respiratory Disease. Journal of Patient Safety. 2023 Jul 19:10-97.
• Shatto J, Mathura P, Ing E, Danial H, Chow EY. Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis Disease: Insights from a Retrospective Chart Analysis. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery. 2025 Feb 3:12034754251316486.

• Alhaidari, S, Alzahrani, I, Alhanaee, M, Decanini, A, Mohamed, M, Zepeda-Gomez, S, Mathura, P, Zhang, J, Sandha, G. Optimising the indications for biliary stent placement during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: a quality improvement initiative to enhance patient care and reduce healthcare resource utilisation. BMJ Open Gastroenterology. 2024;11:e001375.
• Ambasta, A, Holroyd-Leduc, J, Pokharel, S, Mathura, P, Wei-Yeh Shih, A, Stelfox, H, Ma, I, Manns, B, Faris, P, Williamson, T, Shukalek, C, Santana, M, Omodon, O, McCaughey, D, Kassam, N., Naugler, C. Re-Purposing the Ordering of Routine Laboratory Tests in Hospitalized Medical Patients (RePort): protocol for a multicenter stepped‑wedge cluster randomised trial to evaluate the impact of a multicomponent intervention bundle to reduce laboratory test over‑utilization. BMC Implementation Science. 2024 July 2
• James, M, Dixon, E, Tan, Z, Mathura, P, Datta, I, Lall, R, Landry, J, Minty, E, Samis, G, Winkelaar, G, Pannu, N. Stepped-Wedge Trial of Decision Support for Acute Kidney Injury on Surgical Units. KI REPORTS. 2024
• Mathura P, Marini S, Yacychyn E, Suranyi Y, Kassam N. Physician insights on strategies for leading quality improvement. Can J Physician Leadersh. 2024;10(1):13-23 https://doi.org/10.37964/cr24778
• Mathura P, Pascheto I, Dytoc-Fong H, Hrynchyshyn G, McMurtry N, Kassam N. Advancing a virtual home hospital: a blueprint for development and expansion. BMJ Open Quality. 2024 Dec 9;13(4).
• Nanda, K, Mathura, P, Kovacs Burns, K, Pagnoux, C, Garner, S, Stewart, J, Yacyshyn, E. Social determinants of health as barriers to care for vasculitis: perspectives of patients and healthcare providers. Clinical Rheumatology. 2024 August 13.
• Sharfuddin N, Mathura P, Mac A, Ling E, Tan M, Khatib E, Suranyi Y, Kassam N. Advancing language concordant care: a multimodal medical interpretation intervention. BMJ Open Quality. 2024 Jan 1;13(1):e002511.

• Godfrey MR, Mathura PV, Damani Z, Dytoc M. Trialing empathetic approaches in dermatology: from theory to practice. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery. 2023 Mar;27(2):165-6.
• Lee DH, Mathura PV, Shkrobot J, Kassam N, Aziz K. Teaching quality improvement concepts to pharmacy students using the Evidence-based Practice for Improving Quality (EPIQ) workshop. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. 2023 Jul 18.
• Li M, Mathura P, Hagtvedt R, Dytoc M. Sun safety in elementary school: trialing strategies for keeping children protected. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery. 2023;0(0). doi:10.1177/12034754231211329
• Liu C, Chan M, Beard V, Mathura P, Dytoc M. Beyond skin deep: case-based online modules to teach multidisciplinary care in dermatology among clerkship students. BMC Medical Education. 2023 Feb 4;23(1):90.
• Mathura P, Marini S, Spalding K, Duhn L, Kassam N, Medves J. Characteristics promoting behaviour change: physician experience with a coalition-led quality improvement initiative to reduce excessive laboratory test ordering. BMJ Open Quality. 2023 Jan 1;12(1):e001965.

• Identifying quality improvement opportunities in a vulvar dermatology clinic. Laura C. Soong, Trang T. Vu, Pamela Mathura, Marlene T. Dytoc
• Implementing a diabetic algorithm for ophthalmology surgery patients: a quality improvement initiative. Simrenjeet Sandhu, Aleena Virani, Hilary Salmonson, Karim Damji, Pamela Mathura, Rany Al-Agha
• Reduction of urea test ordering in the emergency department: multicomponent intervention including education, electronic ordering, and data feedback. Pamela Mathura, Cole Boettger, Reidar Hagtvedt, Colleen Sweeney, Stephen Williams, Yvonne Suranyi, Narmin Kassam, Manpreet Gill
• Through the eyes of hospital-based healthcare professionals: exploring their lived experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pamela Mathura, Miriam Li, Jennie Vegt, Zoe Penrod, Yvonne Suranyi, Cathy Osborne, Narmin Kassam
• Stopping routine urine screening studies for stroke rehabilitation inpatient admissions. Arjun Singh Ghuman, Pamela Mathura, Jaime C Yu
• Strategies for enabling physician leadership and involvement in quality improvement: a scoping review---see page 11 of the journal (CJPL). Pamela Mathura, Tarek Turk, Liz Dennette, Karen Spalding, Lenora Duhn, Narmin Kassam, Jennifer Medves
• Understanding approaches to empathy in dermatologic patient care. Pamela V. Mathura, Madison R. Godfrey, Kendra R. Martel, Zaheed Damani, Marlene Dytoc
• Win-win: Summer QI programme for medical students. Pamela Mathura, Paul Barber, Ted Han, Tracey Hillier, Narmin Kassam
• Physician-led quality improvement: a blueprint for building capacity. Pamela Mathura, Sandra Marini, Karen Spalding, Lenora Duhn, Natalie McMurtry, and Narmin Kassam
• Establishing an alternative accommodation for stable hospitalised antepartum patients: barriers and challenges. M Brad Sullivan, Abby Rentz, Pamela Mathura, Megan Gleddie, Tania Luthra, Allison T Thiele, Katharina Kovacs Burns, Rebecca Rich, Winnie W Sia

• Psoriasis education tool for patient-physician decision-making about biologics: a pilot study. Nahirney M, Hum M, Mathura P, Dytoc M.
• Patient-centered approaches to targeting incomplete bowel preparations for inpatient colonoscopies. Lindsey Russell, Pamela Mathura, Amanda Lee, Raveena Dhaliwal, Narmin Kassam, Ali Kohansal
• Identifying quality improvement opportunities in a vulvar dermatology clinic. Laura C. Soong, Trang T. Vu, Pamela Mathura, Marlene T. Dytoc
• Patient perspectives and consultation preferences for in-hospital blood testing. Pamela Mathura, Kendra Raffael, Carley Campbell, Mae Deans, Karen Binns, Yvonne Suranyi, Narmin Kassam
• Patient feedback identifies “Rheum” to improve clinic visit preparedness. Pamela Mathura, Miriam Li, Xing Sun, Lenora Duhn, Narmin Kassam, Elaine Yacyshyn
• Does admission order form design really matter? A reduction in urea blood test ordering. Pamela Mathura, Cole Boettger, Reidar Hagtvedt, Yvonne Suranyi, Narmin Kassam
• Applying improvement science to establish a resident sustained quality improvement (QI) educational model. Caitlyn Collins, Pamela Mathura, Shannon Ip, Narmin Kassam, Anca Tapardel
• Trauma of hospitalization is common in medical inpatients but is not associated with post-discharge outcomes. Akshatha Raghuveer, Erik Youngson, Pamela Mathura, Narmin Kassam, Finlay A. McAlister

• Glove-induced allergic contact hand dermatitis: a quality improvement initiative. AnneLiese Smylie, Navjeet Gill, Rylee Oosterhuis, Pamela Mathura, John Elliott, Sebastian Straube, and Marlene Dytoc.
• Enhancing the healthcare quality improvement storyboard using photovoice. Pamela Mathura, Miriam Li, Natalie McMurtry, Narmin Kassam
• Providing quality improvement training in an advanced pharmacy practice experience elective. Pamela Mathura, Dillon H. Lee, Ann Thompson, Natalie McMurtry, Narmin Kassam
• Implementation of a clinical decision laboratory ordering algorithm for preeclampsia: a quality improvement initiative. Xavier Thompson, M. Brad Sullivan, Pamela Mathura, Alexander Wong, Jennifer Crawford, Winnie Sia
• Sun-safety interventions for elementary schools. Miriam Li, Navjeet Gill, Pamela Mathura, Marlene Dytoc
• Psychodermatology in Canada: a national survey assessment of dermatologists’ perception, practice patterns, and challenges. Tarek Turk, Esther Fujiwara, Adam Abba- Aji, Pamela Mathura, Marlene Dytoc

• A multifaceted quality improvement initiative to reduce unnecessary laboratory testing on internal medicine inpatient wards. Inka Toman, Pamela Mathura, Narmin Kassam
• Deprescribing benzodiazepines among hospitalised older adults: quality improvement initiative. Frances Carr, Peter Tian, Jeffrey Chow, Jennifer Guzak, Jean Triscott, Pamela Mathura, Xing Sun, Bonnie Dobbs
• High-users of acute care in a teaching hospital: a retrospective chart review and survey of primary care physicians. Arpita Gantayet, Pamela Mathura, Alexis Fong-Leboeuf, Natalie McMurtry, Julie Zhang, Finlay A. McAlister, Narmin Kassam

• Comparing the quality of care received in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia at a tertiary care centre over two time periods without a structured quality improvement initiative: a retrospective cohort study
• Examining care aides’ perspectives and attitudes toward the adoption and sustainment of technology in care delivery: a scoping review
• Over 25% of inflammatory bowel disease advanced therapy dose escalations are based on symptoms alone: a quality improvement opportunity
• Patient and healthcare provider voices, listening to improve: Evaluating a Pancreaticobiliary Inflammation and Cancer (EPIC) Program
• Piloting a General Internal Medicine on-call physician to improve zone-wide care coordination
• Providers’ perspectives on diagnostic testing for giant cell arteritis

• Applying the skin and UV neoplasia transplant risk assessment calculator triage tool for heart and lung transplant patients
• COUNTING CARBS: Optimizing person and system-focused interventions to
  reduce inpatient blood urea nitrogen (BUN) test ordering
• Expert-led virtual support group promotes increased quality of life in patients with lichen sclerosus: A randomized controlled trial
• Hallway medicine: Prespectives from the frontline of care
• Hospital-based technology-assisted mobility interventions: A scoping review
• Uncovering rheumatologic disease in the Northwest Territories: First comprehensive baseline study and comparative insights
• Understanding patient needs and priorities in a community-based long COVID rehabilitation program: A mixed-methods study
• Validation of performance of RETREAT score in liver transplant program which follows total volume criteria 

• Active Mind, Active Body in action: assessing the impact of medical student volunteerism in the hospital
• Competency-based medical education: O-score characteristics of procedural and cognitive assessments in gastroenterology residency training
• Improving patient outcomes in the Vulvar Dermatology Clinic
• Optimizing point-of-care capillary blood glucose utilization in hospitalized patients: a quality improvement initiative
• Prescribing improvement for the prescription refill process
• Understanding barriers to referring patients to a deprescribing clinic
• Understanding provincial ambulatory patient concerns and commendation data
• What about physician wellness? Impact of a quality improvement intervention

• Decreasing the number of patients waiting to be seen at the General Internal Medicine Kaye Edmonton Clinic
• Exploring the deprescribing needs of hospitalized medicine patients
• Improving coding practices for alternative level of care (ALC) in hospital medicine units
• Optimizing the indications for biliary placement in patients with CBD stones: a quality improvement initiative to improve patient care and reduce healthcare resource utilization
• Outcomes of first subsequent taxane (FST) therapy in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostrate cancer who previously received docetaxel intensification for metastatic castration-sensitive prostrate cancer
• Teledermatology: Canadian dermatologists' practice patterns, perceived challenges and future recommendations
• Teledermatology in atopic dermatitis: a systemic review

• Applied patient safety education for resident physicians: results of the pilot test
• ED consult volumes and predictive factors for delayed ED consult to decision to admit for GIM in 2021
• Enhancing the adoption of MyAHS Connect patient portal on the University of Alberta General Internal Medicine (GIM) Units
• Evaluation of a patient-administered, physician supervised allergy patch test
• Looking through the COVID-19 lens: exploring the lived experiences of hospital-based health care
• Optimizing IV fluids therapy on medicine wards
• The effectiveness of a sequenced multicomponent intervention: reducing blood urea nitrogen (BUN) test ordering in Alberta hospitals
• Understanding approaches to empathy and efficiency in dermatologic patient care

• • Beyond skin deep: case-based online learning modules to teach multidisciplinary care in dermatology among clerkship students
  • Development of a standardized digital medical interpretation services toolkit: a quality improvement initiative to advance health equity during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Education and order systems' effect on reduction of urea test ordering in the emergency department
  • Identifying quality improvement opportunities in a Vulvar Dermatology Clinic
  • Urine screening on stroke rehabilitation inpatients: a quality improvement initiative

• Determining areas for improvement: sun safety knowledge and practices in Edmonton elementary school children
• Development of a multi-faceted quality improvement study to improve clinical assessments and communication with patients with limited English proficiency
• Development of a standardized referral pathway to link refugee patients with General Internal Medicine specialists
• Improving healthcare delivery to patients with psychodermatological conditions
• Improving timely treatment of adult sickle cell anemia patients presenting with vaso-occlusive pain episodes at the University of Alberta Hospital emergency department
• Trialing a psoriasis education tool for patient-physician decision-making about biologics
• Training pharmacy students in quality improvement (QI) using the Evidence-based Practice for Improving Quality (EPIQ) Workshop: a pilot study

• Determining key intervention components to reduce laboratory test ordering overuse in General Internal Medicine wards
• Ending PJ paralysis: a quality improvement initiative
• Evaluation of a summer healthcare improvement program (SHIP) in undergraduate medicine education
• Exploring the patient perspective of in-hospital blood testing
• Improving oxygen use on General Internal Medicine (GIM) ward
• Reducing laboratory test ordering overuse in General Internal Medicine units at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital
• Reducing length-of-stay for stable antepartum patients

Oral Presentations

• Implementing a new diabetic algorithm for opthamology day surgery patients at the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH)
• Procedural sedation: QI in the ED
• Using quality improvement (QI) methodology to develop a standardized QI educational curriculum for internal medicine residents

Poster Presentations

• A standardized order set with a structured process was effective in reducing unnecessary bloodwork in the alternate level of care inpatients
• AHS WHS programs and creating a "culture of QI": Applying AIW QI principles to the Fit Test Designate program
  
• An alphanumeric paging system - an ongoing quality improvement project
  
• Edmonton Zone, Department of Medicine Access Partnership Project (APP) access to care survey audit tool and action planning
  
• Edmonton Zone Virtual Hospital: development of a new care model
• Enhancing physician engagement and leadership in health system transformation
• Grey Nuns Community Hospital - Emergency Department (ED) General Internal Medicine (GIM) physician consultation and triage process
  
• Implementing a new diabetic algorithm for opthalmology day surgery patients at the Royal Alexandra Hospital
• Implementing a procedural sedation checklist as a quality improvement initiative
• Implementing of the Canadian nutrition screening tool on the General Internal Medicine units at the University of Alberta
• Improving cervical cancer screening rates in HIV positive women
  
• Improving the efficiency of handover in pediatrics: a resident-led quality improvement project
• Improving timely treatment of patients with suspected TTP
• Living Kidney Donor (LKD) hero assessment process
  
• Reducing inappropriate lab draws on Unit 5A4 - a quality improvement initiative
  
• Reducing inappropriate lab ordering in General Internal Medicine units at Misericordia Hospital
• Sturgeon Community Hospital (SCH): from the Emergency Department General Internal Medicine consultation and triage service (GIM-ED) to the hospital medical consult service (HMCS) (PDSA #2)
• Targeting incomplete bowel preparations for inpatient colonoscopies
  
• Understanding the educational needs of patients with adrenal insufficiency
• University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) standardization GI on-call resident handover
• University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) GIM ED evening service: formalized on-call staff physician check-in
  
• University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) General Internal Medicine (GIM) units - ensuring adequate nutritional intake and reducing oral nutritional supplement wastage
  
• University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) Pet Healing program - Dogs that heal. Determining capacity, capability and clinical outcomes for program improvement
• Using quality improvement (QI) methodology to develop a standardized QI educational curriculum for internal medicine residents
• Using the 'Confusion Assessment Method' (CAM) tool to screen for delirium amongst hospitalized inpatients - a quality improvement initiative
  

Poster Presentations

• Building organizational capacity for clinical quality improvement in an academic health centre
• Edmonton Zone (EZ) Adult Medicine - INSPIRED COPD collaborative-transcendent care of complex populations
• Edmonton Zone, Department of Medicine Access Partnership Project (APP)
• Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital (GRH) - deprescribing benzodiazepines: a quality improvement initiative
• Grey Nuns Community Hospital: improving collaboration and access to rehabilitation for stroke patients
• Kaye Edmonton Clinic-Dermatology - Allergic Contact Dermatitis (ACD) glove-induced hand dermatitis
• Kaye Edmonton Clinic - Patch Testing Evaluation
• Kaye Edmonton Rheumatology Clinic - Pre-visit outpatient planning - improving patient preparedness for clinic visits
• Mealtime companionship program at the University of Alberta Hospital: a study on the views of patients, volunteers, health care providers, and relevant stakeholders
• Misericordia Community Hospital (MCH) - Improving discharge communication-changing our approach to discharge summaries
• Royal Alexandra Hospital / Lois Hole Hospital: Reducing excessive laboratory ordering for preeclampsia bloodwork: Be Hip Gone with PIH
• Sturgeon Community Hospital (SCH) - Emergency Department General Internal Medicine (GIM) physician consultation and triage process
• University of Alberta Hospital admission protocol impact on emergency department and patient flow
• University of Alberta Hospital ‐ Ensuring appropriate laboratory ordering 
• University of Alberta Hospital-high-users of acute care: a deeper dive into predictive patient and system factors 
• University of Alberta Hospital - nursing perceptions and identification of improvement strategies for patients with post-operative acute kidney injury