A new team is accessing HRDP-SK Data!

Dr. David Kopriva’s research team will use the HRDP-SK to understand patterns of care and identify opportunities to improve care in Saskatchewan’s abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) surgical patients. An AAA is a bulge in the main vessel that takes blood from the heart to the rest of the body. AAA ruptures can be life-threatening; the largest are sometimes treated with surgery, which poses post-operative risks, including blood clots in veins. Using HRDP-SK clinical and administrative data, the researchers will be able to identify how common post-operative blood clotting is in the province and how patients could benefit from more preventative treatments.