Tableau data dashboards can provide continual monitoring of physician practice and identify areas where practice change could improve patient outcomes.

Preoperative diagnostic imaging and laboratory tests have little value for asymptomatic patients under-going low-risk non-cardiac surgeries. PLP examined the use of pre-op testing in Alberta to determine the frequency at which it occurs and to identify possible areas where it can be reduced or eliminated.

Does the use of intravenous tranexamic acid (TXA) by Calgary  anesthesiologists during total knee and hip replacement procedures  affect blood transfusion rates in the 72 hours following surgery?

Anesthesiology practices used during pediatric tonsillectomy surgery at Alberta Children’s Hospital were assessed to determine the effect on patient outcome measures including post-operative discomfort due to post-operative nausea and vomiting, decreased oral intake and pain.