QI works in progress presentations
Over the course of a few weeks, nearly a dozen teams of residents demonstrated their commitment to quality improvement and patient safety. Teams of four…
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Resident teams present ongoing QI work
Through the months of February and March, residents provided preliminary answers to some good questions at each Monday’s noon conference. Can we convince more Veterans…
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Experiencing both sides of the patient-provider divide
Despite the 50 times she’s been intubated and the two times she came close to death, Alison Clay, MD, FCCP, AISF, Assistant Dean for Clinical…
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7th Annual Quality and Safety Symposium – 11/20-21/19
For seven years now, multiple units within University of Iowa Health Care have supported a yearly celebration and presentation of its culture of patient safety…
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Endocrinology aids in SSI reduction project
An excessive amount of sugar in a person’s bloodstream, or hyperglycemia, occurs most often in people with diabetes. When someone experiencing hyperglycemia has surgery, the…
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Inpatient Fluoroquinolone Stewardship Improves the Quantity and Quality of Fluoroquinolone-prescribing at Hospital Discharge: A Retrospective Analysis among 122 Veterans Health Administration Hospitals
Article: Inpatient Fluoroquinolone Stewardship Improves the Quantity and Quality of Fluoroquinolone-prescribing at Hospital Discharge: A Retrospective Analysis among 122 Veterans Health Administration Hospitals Authors: Hiroyuki…
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Kaboli projects look at patient and provider behavior
The Center for Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE) renewed its five-year status as a Center of Innovation (COIN) within the VA Health Services…
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Quality Is a Verb in Residency
For the past three years our Internal Medicine residents have worked in teams on quality improvement (QI) projects in their continuity clinics. This work has…
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QI at SGIM in DC
At April’s Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) national meeting in Washington, DC, second-year resident Dr. Ruth Fernandez Ruiz presented her Quality Improvement team’s project….
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Highlights of the 4th Annual Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Symposium: Innovating for Quality
University of Iowa Healthcare hosted its 4th Annual Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Symposium on April 6 and 7, 2016. The goal of this conference…
