This session will review the DMAIC process and tools used to improve handoff communication between departments, with transportation services and from the Emergency Department to inpatient nursing units. Problem: Patient handoffs are a well-known time of risk. A handoff contains:...
In 2019, our multi-facility System identified reduction of Broad Spectrum Antibiotics utilization rates, reduction of hospital acquired Clostridioides difficile and increasing rate of conversion from intravenous to oral antibiotics as a priority. A multidisciplinary team used Lean Six Sigma methodology...
The American Hospital Association (AHA)’s Quality Collective convened over 100 health care quality leaders nationwide to provide a collaborative platform to engage deeply with their peers, collectively strategizing on the most pressing health care quality-related issues. Over the course of...
Encouraging cessation and providing referrals to cessation treatment programs is an important aspect of high-quality cancer care for patients who smoke tobacco. The UMMC outpatient cancer care clinics did not have a highly reliable process for providing smoking cessation resources...
Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital was experiencing increased cases of hospital onset Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) bacteremia. Studies indicated that hand hygiene practices are highly effective in reducing cross transmission of MRSA to patients from healthcare workers. This transmission of...
The University of Colorado Department of Medicine Systems Improvement Conference analyzes safety cases within a Just Culture lens to discover system-based issues, rather than blaming providers, for errors that occur in our hospital system. This type of analysis, called Safety...
As part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s healthcare transformation journey, this poster outlines an innovative approach to integrating virtual health services at King Fahad Specialist Hospital-Dammam (KFSH-D). Leveraging the PDSA cycle for continuous quality improvement, the project aimed to...
The clinical decision-making process for obtaining a blood culture in the pediatric population is highly variable and not standardized. Contamination and false positive results can result in unnecessary antibiotic exposure. We aimed at reducing the rate of blood cultures in...
Medical errors and harm are global phenomena and a top ten leading cause of death, accounting for over 251,000 annual U.S. deaths. The Salzburg Global Seminar statement (2019) emphasizes the analysis of real-time incident data to identify harm. Incident underreporting...
This is a quality improvement project to identify best practices for collaboration between hospitals and birth centers/midwives to decrease transfer times and improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. Interprofessional training, provider pre- and post- surveys, and a new transfer process based...