Quality Improvement Basics
Core Competencies
Slide Sets
Web Resources
SHM QI Training
Core Competencies
The Core
Competencies of Hospital Medicine define quality improvement as the
process of continually evaluating existing processes of care and
developing new standards of practice. QI is influenced by objective data
and focuses on systems change, rather than individual performance, in
order to optimize performance and appropriate resource utilization.
Hospitalists may lead or participate in QI teams to optimize management
of common inpatient conditions and improve clinical outcomes based on
standardized evidence based practices. Hospitalists should use evidence
based outcomes data whenever available to support their inpatient
practices and QI initiatives.
Learn
more about the knowledge, skills, and attitudes hospitalists should have
in regard to QI.
Slide Sets to Enhance Familiarity with Key QI Principles
QI Primer
This slide set will help you to understand the fundamental principles of
quality improvement. You will also learn key steps for a successful
quality improvement project and become familiar with several quality
improvement tools.
View the QI Primer
Quality and Leadership: What is Needed to Support Hospitalist
Quality Initiatives?
Presented at SHM's 2008 Annual Meeting by Mark Novotny, Janet Nagamine,
Erin Stucky, Joan Faro, and Jennifer Myers, this slide set will show you
how to occupy an important role in your institution, leverage that role
into the acquisition of resources, and how to accept accountability for
managing resources.
View the Quality and Leadership Slide Set
Web Resources to Enhance Working Familiarity with Key QI Tools
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has an
excellent web site that reviews a model for improvement, as well as
providing tools that you can actually download. While registration is
needed to download the tools, this is a quick and free resource.
Find out more information on QI tools.
The American Society for Quality has an excellent,
user-friendly site with overviews of the major quality improvement
tools. Explore this section with particular attention to run charts, SPC
charts, process flow diagrams, and FMEA.
Find out more information about the sections on
tools.
Intermountain Healthcare is a recognized leader in the
performance improvement field, and integrating performance improvement
with all of their key clinical endeavors. The Institute for Healthcare
Delivery Research, led by Dr. Brent James, has a wealth of presentations
and other information available at no charge.
Find out more information about Intermountain
Healthcare.
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement is a
non-profit independent site dedicated to promoting collaborative quality
improvement, based out of Minnesota and some surrounding states.
Find out more
information about their quality improvement initiatives.
SHM QI Training
Hospital Medicine 2009
Quality Improvement Skills Precourse
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Hyatt Regency -- Chicago
Chicago, IL
Quality Improvement Skills Course
8:00 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
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Course Director
Janet Nagamine, MD
Kaiser Permanente
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Course Director
Jason Stein, MD
Emory University School of Medicine
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Course Overview:
The 2009 Quality Pre-Course has been re-designed to expose hospitalists
of all experience levels to effective quality improvement projects. In
an interactive format, multiple successful QI projects will be profiled
by the hospitalists who have led them. Participants will have a chance
to see key QI principles reappear in each project, while also gaining
exposure to alternative strategies. The participant may choose from one
of three sessions: VTE, Glycemic Control, or Care Transitions.
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe how a hospitalist can communicate a vision to lead
improvement in hospital care
- Describe the power of standardization, especially when coupled with
high reliability strategies
- Describe features of a useful data system and how an effective
multidisciplinary team can achieve specific performance goals
Visit the Hospital Medicine 2009 site for registration
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