Eric Grafstein, University of British Columbia

Research

Adverse Drug Events Patient Safety Polypharmacy Aging Health Information Technology Health Systems Complex Medical Illness Health Informatics

Latest papers

Evaluation of a Canadian heat illness-related emergency department visit surveillance system.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
Safety and efficiency of implementation of high-sensitivity troponin T in the assessment of emergency department patients with cardiac chest pain.
CJEM · 2024
Risk factors associated with 1-week revisit among emergency department patients with alcohol withdrawal.
CJEM · 2023

All 48 publications

Latest funding

Implementing ActionADE to Transform Medication Safety
CIHR · 2019 · Principal investigator
$2,400,000
Implementing and Evaluating ActionADE to Transform Medication Safety
CIHR · 2018 · Principal investigator
$100,000
Identifying Risk and Transitions Among Frequent Emergency Department Users: Whose Needs Can Safely Be Met Elsewhere?
CIHR · 2017 · Principal investigator
$70,000

All 5 grants and awards

48 publications.

01

Evaluation of a Canadian heat illness-related emergency department visit surveillance system.

Wituik C, Demlow E, Grafstein E, Yeong SK, Ramler G, StJean M, Lindsay H, Schwandt M, MacDonald A

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-026-01216-8 PMID: 42547751

02

Safety and efficiency of implementation of high-sensitivity troponin T in the assessment of emergency department patients with cardiac chest pain.

Scheuermeyer FX, Mattman A, Humphries K, Ramanathan K, Kaila K, Dodek P, Grunau B, Grafstein E, Innes G, Christenson J

CJEM2024

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-024-00778-1 PMID: 39467993

03

Risk factors associated with 1-week revisit among emergency department patients with alcohol withdrawal.

Scheuermeyer FX, Lane D, Grunau B, Grafstein E, Miles I, Kestler A, Barbic D, Barbic S, Slvjic I, Duley S, Yu A, Chiu I, Innes G

CJEM2023

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-022-00414-w PMID: 36645614

04

Prognostic long-term value of nonobstructive disease in emergency department chest pain patients who undergo CCTA.

Scheuermeyer FX, Hague C, Ellis J, Grafstein E, Christenson J, Grunau B, Innes G, Leipsic J

Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2021.12.002 PMID: 34930710

05

Subgroups of people who make frequent emergency department visits in Ontario and Alberta: a retrospective cohort study.

Moe J, Wang EY, McGregor MJ, Schull MJ, Dong K, Holroyd BR, Hohl CM, Grafstein E, O'Sullivan F, Trimble J, McGrail KM

CMAJ open2022

DOI: 10.9778/cmajo.20210132 PMID: 35292481

06

People who make frequent emergency department visits based on persistence of frequent use in Ontario and Alberta: a retrospective cohort study.

Moe J, Wang EY, McGregor MJ, Schull MJ, Dong K, Holroyd BR, Hohl CM, Grafstein E, O'Sullivan F, Trimble J, McGrail KM

CMAJ open2022

DOI: 10.9778/cmajo.20210131 PMID: 35292480

07

Self-isolation among discharged emergency department patients with suspected COVID-19.

Yang L, Mitchell D, Clayton F, Clerc P, Spangehl T, Oxland R, Spearing K, Barbic S, Andolfatto G, Grafstein E, Scheuermeyer F, Kestler A

CJEM2022

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-021-00212-w PMID: 34611781

08

Does early intervention improve outcomes for patients with acute ureteral colic?

Innes GD, Teichman JMH, Scheuermeyer FX, McRae AD, Grafstein E, Andruchow J, Cheng L, Law MR

CJEM2021

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-020-00016-4 PMID: 34491558

09

Characteristics of frequent emergency department users in British Columbia, Canada: a retrospective analysis.

Moe J, O'Sullivan F, McGregor MJ, Schull MJ, Dong K, Holroyd BR, Grafstein E, Hohl CM, Trimble J, McGrail KM

CMAJ open2021

DOI: 10.9778/cmajo.20200168 PMID: 33653768

10

Identifying subgroups and risk among frequent emergency department users in British Columbia.

Moe J, O'Sullivan F, McGregor MJ, Schull MJ, Dong K, Holroyd BR, Grafstein E, Hohl CM, Trimble J, McGrail KM

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open2021

DOI: 10.1002/emp2.12346 PMID: 33532752

Implementing ActionADE to Transform Medication Safety

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Team Grant - SPOR iCT Rewarding Success - Phase 3 - British Columbia

Principal investigators: Hohl, Corinne M; Eliopoulos, Vivian; Grafstein, Eric; Moneo, Mitch C; Nakagawa, Robert S; Partovi, Nilufar; Trimble, Johanna; Balka, Ellen; Brasher, Penelope (Penny) M; Mitton, Craig R

Keywords: Adverse Drug Events; Aging; Health Information Technology; Health Systems; Patient Safety; Polypharmacy

$2,400,000

Implementing and Evaluating ActionADE to Transform Medication Safety

Principal investigatorCIHR2018Operating Grant: SPOR iCT Rewarding Success - Development Grants - BC

Principal investigators: Hohl, Corinne M; Grafstein, Eric; Moneo, Mitch C; Partovi, Nilufar; Trimble, Johanna; Balka, Ellen; Brasher, Penelope (Penny) M; Mitton, Craig R

Keywords: Adverse Drug Events; Complex Medical Illness; Health Informatics; Informational Discontinuity Of Care; Medication Safety; Patient Safety; Polypharmacy; Seniors

$100,000

Identifying Risk and Transitions Among Frequent Emergency Department Users: Whose Needs Can Safely Be Met Elsewhere?

Principal investigatorCIHR2017Operating Grant: Secondary Data Analysis

Principal investigators: Hohl, Corinne M; Grafstein, Eric; Holroyd, Brian R; Moe, Jessica; Schull, Michael J

Keywords: Administrative Databases; Elderly; Emergency Medicine; Frequent Emergency Department Users; Health Care System Cost-Effectiveness; Substance Misuse

$70,000

TEC4Home: Telehealth for Emergency-Community Continuity of Care Connectivity via Home-Telemonitoring

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Oper Grant:eHealth Innov Partnership Program(eHIPP)-Seniors w Complex Care Needs

Principal investigators: Ho, Kendall; Kislock, Lindsay; Kim Sing, CHAD A

Keywords: Acute Care; Chronic Disease Management; Community Care; Congestive Heart Failure; Ehealth; Emergency Medicine; Home Health Monitoring; Remote Patient Monitoring; Seniors; Transition Of Care

$749,960

Optimizing Data Reporting to Improve Knowledge Translation and System Improvement in British Columbi

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: PHSI

Principal investigators: Marsden, John J

Keywords: Data; Emergency; Interprofessional; Knowledge Translation; Quality Improvement

$13,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Emergency Medicine
School of Population and Public Health
School of Nursing
Social Medicine
Occupational Therapy
Medicine
Pediatrics
Other

Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Brian Grunau

Emergency Medicine

9 shared papers, latest 2024

Grant Innes

Emergency Medicine

6 shared papers, latest 2024

Jessica Moe

Emergency Medicine

5 shared papers, latest 2022

Andrew Kestler

Emergency Medicine

5 shared papers, latest 2023

Johanna Trimble

Emergency Medicine

4 shared papers, latest 2022

Kathryn Dong

Faculty

4 shared papers, latest 2022

Evan Wood

Social Medicine

4 shared papers, latest 2016

Kathryn Dong

Emergency Medicine

3 shared papers, latest 2022

Julio Montaner

Faculty

3 shared papers, latest 2016

Martha Mackay

School of Nursing

3 shared papers, latest 2018

Frank Scheuermeyer

Occupational Therapy

2 shared papers, latest 2022

Grant Innes

Emergency Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2020

Skye Barbic

School of Population and Public Health

2 shared papers, latest 2023

Karin Humphries

Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2024

Jane Buxton

Emergency Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2019

Brian Rowe

Emergency Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2017

Quynh Doan

Pediatrics

2 shared papers, latest 2019

Hubert Wong

Emergency Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2006

Michael Schwandt

School of Population and Public Health

1 shared papers, latest 2026

Scott Harrison

School of Population and Public Health

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Mark Lysyshyn

Emergency Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2019

Surita Parashar

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2014

Amanda Slaunwhite

School of Population and Public Health

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Seonaid Nolan

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Adeera Levin

Nephrology

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Kendall Ho

Emergency Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Peter Dodek

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Bohdan Nosyk

Emergency Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Keith Ahamad

Family Practice

1 shared papers, latest 2019

Lianping Ti

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2020

David Evans

Emergency Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2019

Nadia Fairbairn

Social Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2012

Danielle Wilson

School of Nursing

1 shared papers, latest 2013

Mel Krajden

Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Mark Hull

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Lindsey Richardson

Sociology

1 shared papers, latest 2016

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