Mandate
The Canadian Emergency Department Research Network (CEDRN “Sedd’rin”) is a national collaboration of emergency departments across Canada dedicated to improving healthcare through multi-centre research, quality improvement and surveillance. Building upon the success of the Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network, CEDRN fosters engagement and collaboration, accelerates research, innovation and knowledge translation, and ensures inclusive participation across healthcare institutions.
We aim to facilitate multi-centre observational studies to improve patient outcomes and experiences, health equity, care delivery and provider experiences and health system sustainability by informing care, operations and policy. CEDRN data can be used for research, quality improvement and surveillance, facilitating data use for learning health systems.
This mandate is realized by the many emergency departments participating in CEDRN across Canada
Our aims
- Facilitate collaborative research in Emergency Medicine by accelerating multi-centre studies for research, quality improvement and surveillance to improve clinical care, patient outcomes and experiences, health equity, healthcare operations and provider experiences, health system sustainability, and public health and policy.
- Remove systematic barriers to research participation in Emergency Medicine through executed membership and data-sharing agreements, that enables sites across Canada, including rural and remote sites, to participate in representative and generalizable studies.
- Streamline study launch and data collection by providing operational and administrative support for faster, more efficient research execution.
- Enhance data accessibility by offering a secure research environment for REB and CEDRN-approved studies, quality improvement, and surveillance.