Overview
Building on the success of the 2025 workshop, this interactive half-day session takes a practical deep dive into how emergency clinicians can effectively use existing data for quality improvement and research. Participants will explore the fundamentals of ED data, including classification and summarisation, before tackling the real-world challenges of extracting and linking datasets. Guided by experienced faculty, attendees will be introduced to a simple, practical checklist for data extraction and linkage, and will apply these steps in hands-on exercises. Participants are encouraged to bring their own de-identified datasets to work with, creating a highly relevant and applied learning experience.
Lead Facilitator
Dr Gerard O’Reilly (EDEN Network Chair)
Who Should Attend
Any emergency medicine clinician interested in collecting, managing and utilising clinical ED multi-site data to improve care.
ACEM CPD Hours
Educational Activities (EA): 3 hours 30 minutes
Health Outcomes: Professionalism
Agenda
| Time | Topic/Activity | Presenter/Facilitator |
| 1330-1500 | Using Existing Data for Quality Improvement and Research: Let’s Extract and Link Together! | Gerard O’Reilly – MBBS, FACEM, MPH, MBiostat, PhD Viet Tran – FACEM Simon Craig – FACEM, PhD Diana Egerton-Warburton – FACEM Frances Kinnear – FACEM |
| 1500-1530 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 1530-1700 | Using Existing Data for Quality Improvement and Research: Let’s Extract and Link Together! | Gerard O’Reilly – MBBS, FACEM, MPH, MBiostat, PhD Viet Tran – FACEM Simon Craig – FACEM, PhD Diana Egerton-Warburton – FACEM Frances Kinnear – FACEM |
Learning Outcomes
1. Revisit the basics of ED data
2. Understand how to classify and summarise ED data
3. Learn about the challenges and solutions to ED data extraction and linkage
4. Formulate a checklist for ED data extraction and linkage
5. Apply the steps to data extraction and linkage in practice