Injury data collected at RUH will help improve practice

Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital (RUH) is the first in Saskatchewan to join the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program, an injury and poisoning surveillance system involving 18 hospitals across Canada.
Patients who present to RUH with injuries will be asked what they were doing when it happened, what went wrong and where the injury occurred. 
The information will become part of a federal database used to prevent injuries, influencing things like product r