Ensuring surgical care is evidence-based can reduce complications and improve recovery for patients and can reduce costs to the healthcare system. The K2I Lab's work aims to optimize surgical care by ensuring surgical care is evidence-based. Surgery is an important treatment for many types of cancer so improving surgical care also improves cancer care.
Below are some examples of the work the K2I lab is doing in this area.
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for surgical care that can improve patient-level and system-level outcomes such as reduced complications, hospital length of stay, re-admission rates, ultimately reducing the cost of surgery. The K2I Lab is studying the effect ERAS guidelines have on health outcomes of patients and the quality of care they receive in Alberta and Internationally.
Do you provide surgical care in Alberta?
Our research team would like to hear about your experience using ERAS guidelines in a brief survey. If you are interested in contributing to this research please scan the QR code on the right or click here!
During the COVID-19 pandemic, across many jurisdictions in Canada and Internationally, non-urgent surgeries were delayed or cancelled to free-up space in hospitals needed to care for patients with COVID-19 requiring acute and intensive care. The K2I Lab examined how these delays affected both patients and the healthcare system.