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Heart Failure Discussion Community
Society of Hospital Medicine's Ask the Expert Discussion Community
Description: The Heart Failure Ask the Expert forum allows you to pose questions and receive answers from SHM Experts on topics related to inpatient heart failure management.
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Society of Hospital Medicine's Peer to Peer Discussion Community
Description: The Heart Failure Peer to Peer forum allows you to converse with colleagues on topics related to inpatient heart failure management.
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Share Your Tools:
To submit examples from your own institution, follow the 3 easy steps outlined below in “How to Submit a Tool.” Please indicate if there is a specific element or step that has been particularly useful. Before submitting it is a good idea to secure permission to post or otherwise distribute the material.
Send your Clinical Tools via email to heartfailure@hospitalmedicine.org.
The HQPS Committee is compiling on an on-going basis a variety of quality improvement tools used by our membership to enhance patient safety and quality of inpatient care. The tools are a heterogenous group of documents and include order sets, guidelines, templates, and worksheets. They have been implemented in a variety of clinical settings and serve as a resource for individuals working within their own institutions to develop interventions that can improve inpatient care.
The resources listed have not been formally studied by the HQPS committee, nor has their content been validated for accuracy. Each submission is accompanied by a cover sheet that lists the following:
Purpose
Submitting author
Institution
E-mail contact information
Tool Format -- paper-based or computer-based Tips on using the tool Important pitfalls
This information will help guide you through the tools to better identify those that may be best suited fro your specific hospital setting. In addition, we want to highlight that QI tools by themselves do not lead to improvement. Interventions must be embedded in care processes within a particular care setting, and that the development of any strategy to improve care must be a partnership between the specific intervention and the people and work processes affected.
With this brief background, we hope that you find the QI tools useful in your efforts to improve inpatient care.
How to submit a tool?
Share Success Stories:
When you lead change at your hospital you may improve, but you will definitely learn. Report your improvement lessons to the SHM community - by sharing your experience, we all learn.
Complete the Improvement Report. Send the completed report via email to heartfailure@hospitalmedicine.org.
Current Stories
Heart Failure Improvement Report: St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI
Improvement Report submitted by Lakshmi K. Halasyamani.
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