Our faculty is heavily engaged in QI at the local and national level. Faculty participate in multiple projects annually with focus on High-Value Care, Clinical Effectiveness and Patient Safety.Section QI teams are multidisciplinary, and include nursing leaders and primary care and subspecialist colleagues.
Others aim to improve emergency department care for conditions including appendicitis, asthma, fever, fractures, gastroenteritis, headaches, pneumonia, sexually transmitted infections, and trauma. Our QI team leads a program to improve care for patients with bronchiolitis by aligning patient care with the best available evidence, reducing unnecessary variation in care, and helping to ensure that patients get the right care at the right time in the right setting. The QI team is also engaged in a multidisciplinary HIV screening program.
Other projects cut across conditions and include improvement of patient flow and discharge processes.
Finally, PEM faculty are prominently involved in Clinical Pathways, with several faculty currently helping to develop . Through these widespread academic activities, CHCO hospitalists have had robust presence at local and national QI meetings, numerous peer-reviewed QI abstracts and manuscripts, and successful applications for grant funding through the School of Medicine’s Clinical Effectiveness and Patient Safety small grants program.