Maitreya Coffey, University of Toronto

Research

Equity Incident Report System Patient Complaint System Patient Safety

Latest papers

The Experiences of Families of Hospitalized Children Who Use Languages Other Than English.
Hospital pediatrics · 2025
Art of leading quality improvement.
BMJ quality & safety · 2025 · first author
Improving health outcomes for patients and families with preferred language other than English or French (PLOEF).
Paediatrics & child health · 2024

All 26 publications

Latest funding

Improving equity in healthcare quality through hospital safety monitoring systems
CIHR · 2023 · Principal investigator
$558,451
Race, Ethnicity, Indigenous identity and Language preference for Pediatric research in the hospital setting (REIaL-P)
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 2 grants and awards

26 publications.

01

The Experiences of Families of Hospitalized Children Who Use Languages Other Than English.

Do V, Buchanan F, Gill P, Nicholas D, Bismilla Z, Coffey M, Mistry K, Sappleton K, Mahant S

Hospital pediatrics2025

DOI: 10.1542/hpeds.2024-008100 PMID: 39900099

02

Art of leading quality improvement.

Coffey M, Smith K

BMJ quality & safety2025First author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017909 PMID: 39798991

03

Improving health outcomes for patients and families with preferred language other than English or French (PLOEF).

Do V, Asim A, Coffey M, Mahant S

Paediatrics & child health2024

DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxad017 PMID: 39045473

04

Handle with care: Preventing harm during critical care unit relocation.

Coffey M, Kleinman ME

Journal of hospital medicine2024First author

DOI: 10.1002/jhm.13361 PMID: 38715194

05

Racial and ethnic disparities in common inpatient safety outcomes in a children's hospital cohort.

Lyren A, Haines E, Fanta M, Gutzeit M, Staubach K, Chundi P, Ward V, Srinivasan L, Mackey M, Vonderhaar M, Sisson P, Sheffield-Bradshaw U, Fryzlewicz B, Coffey M, Cowden JD, PHARE Cohort Study Group

BMJ quality & safety2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2022-015786 PMID: 37460119

06

Compliance With Central Line Maintenance Bundle and Infection Rates.

Tripathi S, McGarvey J, Lee K, Staubach K, Gehring E, Sisson P, McCaskey M, Mack E, Hord J, Pallotto EK, Lyren A, Coffey M

Pediatrics2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1542/peds.2022-059688 PMID: 37539480

07

Pediatric Ventilator-Associated Events Before and After a Multicenter Quality Improvement Initiative.

Wu AG, Madhavan G, Deakins K, Evans D, Hayward A, Pugh C, Stutts AC, Mustin L, Staubach KC, Sisson P, Coffey M, Lyren A, Lee GM, Gupta S, Pereira-Argenziano L, Priebe GP, Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS) PedVAE Study Group

JAMA network open2023

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.46545 PMID: 38060226

08

Applying an equity lens to hospital safety monitoring: a critical interpretive synthesis protocol.

Goldman J, Lo L, Rotteau L, Wong BM, Kuper A, Coffey M, Rawal S, Alfred M, Razack S, Pinard M, Palomo M, Trbovich P

BMJ open2023

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072706 PMID: 37524554

09

Implementation of the I-PASS handoff program in diverse clinical environments: A multicenter prospective effectiveness implementation study.

Starmer AJ, Spector ND, O'Toole JK, Bismilla Z, Calaman S, Campos ML, Coffey M, Destino LA, Everhart JL, Goldstein J, Graham DA, Hepps JH, Howell EE, Kuzma N, Maynard G, Melvin P, Patel SJ, Popa A, Rosenbluth G, Schnipper JL, Sectish TC, Srivastava R, West DC, Yu CE, Landrigan CP, I-PASS SHM Mentored Implementation Study Group

Journal of hospital medicine2023

DOI: 10.1002/jhm.12979 PMID: 36326255

10

Exploring the lived experience of patients and families who speak language other than English (LOE) for healthcare: developing a qualitative study

Do V, Buchanan F, Gill P, Nicholas D, Wahi G, Bismilla Z, Coffey M, Zhou K, Bayliss A, Selliah P

Research Involvement and Engagement20232 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s40900-023-00465-y PMID: W4383737179

Improving equity in healthcare quality through hospital safety monitoring systems

Principal investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Trbovich, Patricia; Coffey, Maitreya S; Goldman, Joanne B; Kooijman, Allison L; Kuper, Ayelet

Keywords: Equity; Incident Report System; Patient Complaint System; Patient Safety

$558,451

Race, Ethnicity, Indigenous identity and Language preference for Pediatric research in the hospital setting (REIaL-P)

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Gr- PA: Res. in human dev., child and/or youth health in Indigenous pops

Principal investigators: Li, Patricia T; Ali, Samina; Banerjee, Ananya T; Burstein, Brett S; Carwana, Matthew; Constantin, Evelyn; Cooke, Suzette R; Drouin, Olivier; Foulds, Jessica L; Freire, Gabrielle; Giroux, Ryan; Kam, April; Maratta, Christina I; Orr-Gaucher, Nathalie; Principi, Tania; Suleman, Shazeen; Ukah, Ugochinyere Viv; Wahi, Gita

Keywords: Adverse And Safety Events; Co-Design; Health Equity; Hospital Care; Indigenous Identity; Language Preference; Pediatrics; Race And Ethnicity; Shared Decision Making

$100,000

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

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Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
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