In some institutions a committees or a secretariat was responsible for program coordination, and in others it was a designated coordinator.
If any falls prevention program was provided, directors were asked for the contact information of a designated coordinator who could provide program(s) details.
Coordination at a disaster site in Québec is best fostered by an approach that rallies the main stakeholders around a designated coordinator.
In a multivariable logistic regression model, an ED pediatric visit volume of ≥1 patient per hour (i.e., ≥8,760 visits per year) was a significant positive predictor of the presence of a designated coordinator for pediatric emergency care (Table 1).
EDs in rural areas (both adjacent and non-adjacent to an urban area) were significantly less likely than EDs in urban areas to have a designated coordinator for pediatric emergency care.
In addition, despite numerous calls for the appointment of a designated coordinator for pediatric emergency care, in two joint consensus statements [6, 7] and the 2006 report from the IOM [16], the proportion of EDs with a pediatric coordinator (13% physician coordinator; 14% with a nurse coordinator) is virtually unchanged from findings in a 2003 survey [5].
Instead, we chose to focus on one of the three major aspects of pediatric emergency care capabilities (designated coordinator for the emergency care of children) because it allowed us to conduct the survey by telephone, an important component in achieving the high response rate (85%) that would yield the most accurate assessment of current pediatric care capabilities in US EDs.
Timelines were followed, and any lateness was addressed by the designated coordinator.
Essential elements of the GERS model are: 1) guaranteed financial support to complete a PhD at the time of recruitment (4 5 yr, depending on field and contingent on continued academic success), 2) oversight through a faculty committee, 3) student community-building activities, and 4) a designated coordinator.
The incentives also required that participating PHC centres designate coordinators responsible for collecting baseline and follow-up statistics about the PAR scheme in each PHC centre.
