GEMINI-Paediatrics
Innovating with data to improve hospital care for children and youth
Canada’s largest paediatric hospital research network
Supported by the Ontario Ministry of Health, GEMINI-Paediatrics brings together researchers, clinicians, and hospitals to continuously learn from hospital clinical data and improve care for children and youth.
It is an expansion of the GEMINI network, and includes paediatric data from 30+ hospitals (70% of Ontario’s paediatric care). The platform provides a secure way to study health data, and facilitates collaborations across hospitals, policymakers, and patient partners to advance equitable, evidence-based paediatric care.
- >85,000Paediatric admissions annually
- ~70%Ontario paediatric hospitalizations represented
- 30+Hospitals participating province-wide
- 5All specialty children’s hospitals included in Ontario
Featured Projects
Respiratory Illness Care
Examines variations in care for common paediatric respiratory conditions such as asthma and bronchiolitis, with the goal to identify opportunities to improve outcomes and standardize evidence-based care.
Diagnostic Imaging
Explores hospital variability in diagnostic imaging such as X-rays, ultrasounds, CT, and MRIs, and factors affecting timely care to support safer, more equitable processes for patient diagnosis and treatment.
Antimicrobial Prescribing
Examines antimicrobial use in hospitalized children, with the goal to identify opportunities to improve appropriate antimicrobial prescribing and improve outcomes.
Benefits of Joining GEMINI-Paediatrics
Join a collaborative provincial network dedicated to advancing child health outcomes and gain the ability to:
- Access high-quality, standardized, and validated detailed paediatric hospital data to support applied research and analytics on paediatric inpatient care
- Lead or collaborate on research projects and grants using GEMINI data, and linked GEMINI and ICES data
- Develop benchmarks for paediatric clinical care delivery to support internal planning
If your hospital organization is interested in joining GEMINI-Paediatrics, please contact: GEMINI.Research@unityhealth.to
Partnerships
- Ontario Ministry of Health
- GEMINI Medicine
- The Hospital for Sick Children
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
- Unity Health Toronto
- Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health
- BORN Ontario
- CHEO
- The Paediatric Inpatient Research Network
- Sinai Health
- Markham Stouffville Hospital Foundation
- Trillium Health Partners
- William Osler Health System
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences CEntre
- Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit
- North York General Hospital
- North Bay Regional Health Centre
- Mackenzie Health
- Halton Healthcare
- London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute
- Ontario Child Health Support Unit
- Kingston Health Sciences Centre
- Hamilton Health Sciences
Contact the GEMINI-Paediatrics Team: GEMINI.Research@unityhealth.to
GEMINI-Paediatrics is funded by Ontario Ministry of Health’s Research, Analysis, and Evaluation Branch.