Zoe M King, Jordan E Kurzum, Mary Reich Cooper, Patrick C Hanley
{"title":"Reducing Diabetic Ketoacidosis Readmissions with a Hospital-School-Based Improvement Partnership.","authors":"Zoe M King, Jordan E Kurzum, Mary Reich Cooper, Patrick C Hanley","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in pediatric type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D). Baseline data showed 139 of 182 DKA readmissions (76.4%) were due to missed basal insulin dosing. The team used quality improvement tools to implement a process change around basal insulin. The project utilized insulin degludec and school-based nurses when missed basal insulin was noted as a main driver for readmission. The DKA readmission rate averaged 5.25 per month from January 2017 to April 2019. The rate decreased to 3.64 per month during the intervention from May 2019 to March 2020, a 31% reduction over 11 months. This standardized approach for patients with T1D readmitted with DKA, using a school-based intervention and insulin degludec, reduced the number of DKA readmissions. This method is safe and effective for lowering DKA readmissions due to missed basal insulin in areas with reliable school nursing.</p>","PeriodicalId":7539,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medical Quality","volume":"38 2","pages":"93-101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10017271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher Blazy, Andrew Siler, Chana Engelman, Paul Kim
{"title":"Increasing Influenza Vaccinations Within the Emergency Department of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center.","authors":"Christopher Blazy, Andrew Siler, Chana Engelman, Paul Kim","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7539,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medical Quality","volume":"38 2","pages":"105-106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10008077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter B Smulowitz, Jeanne McCoy, Bert Thurlo-Walsh
{"title":"Building a Just Culture through Transforming our Response to Adverse Events.","authors":"Peter B Smulowitz, Jeanne McCoy, Bert Thurlo-Walsh","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000108","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7539,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medical Quality","volume":"38 2","pages":"102-103"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10014446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical Student Quality Assurance Projects Well Received by Students and Physicians Across New Jersey Family Medicine Practices.","authors":"Christine Ramdin, Bianca Dube, Steven Keller","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7539,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medical Quality","volume":"38 2","pages":"110-112"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10017270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking Ahead to the Future of ACMQ.","authors":"Dan M Westphal","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7539,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medical Quality","volume":"38 1","pages":"70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10683365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jordan Villars, Christopher A Gardner, Tingting Zhan, Adam F Binder
{"title":"Delay in Time to Antibiotics for De Novo Inpatient Neutropenic Fever May Not Impact Overall Survival for Patients With a Cancer Diagnosis.","authors":"Jordan Villars, Christopher A Gardner, Tingting Zhan, Adam F Binder","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000093","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neutropenic fever (NF) is an oncologic emergency for which expert consensus recommends that anti-pseudomonas antibiotics be administered within 60 minutes of detection. This study investigated whether delays in time to antibiotics (TTA) impacted overall survival (OS) for patients with hematological malignancies who developed inpatient NF via a retrospective cohort study of 187 de novo NF cases categorized by TTA (<1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4 and >4 hours). OS at 180 days post-NF episode was compared using Kaplan-Meier estimates and multivariable Cox proportional hazards model. TTA did not significantly affect OS (P = 0.420). Patients with Charleston Comorbidity Indexes ≥3, a measure of overall health, had higher hazard (hazard ratio [HR] = 2.728, 95% confidence interval, 1.265-5.882, P = 0.010). TTA delays in the hospital may not be long enough to cause significant patient harm. Larger studies may be needed to detect small, but significant mortality differences.</p>","PeriodicalId":7539,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medical Quality","volume":"38 1","pages":"9-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10391967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Vincent Raikhel, Kevin Blau, Katherine Alberty, Paul Cornia, Rudolph A Rodriguez, Kenneth P Steinberg, Chenwei Wu
{"title":"Vax the Max, a Gamification Intervention for COVID-19 Vaccination Task Engagement in the Inpatient Setting.","authors":"A Vincent Raikhel, Kevin Blau, Katherine Alberty, Paul Cornia, Rudolph A Rodriguez, Kenneth P Steinberg, Chenwei Wu","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000094","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The development of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 has offered game-changing protection from severe disease and death from COVID-19. Despite efforts to vaccinate individuals in the ambulatory setting, a sizable minority of the US population remains unvaccinated for COVID-19. For unvaccinated patients, hospitalization for non-COVID-19 illness offers another opportunity for vaccination. In the summer of 2021, the authors noted that COVID-19 vaccination rate for medicine inpatients at their hospital had fallen to 5.3 vaccine doses administered per 4-week block. In response, they created Vax the Max, a gamification program of COVID-19 vaccination tasks where internal medicine resident teams were awarded points for completing these tasks. Residents were anonymously surveyed after participation. The hospital demonstrated higher rates of administering the initial COVID-19 vaccine dose and completing the vaccine series in the inpatient setting per 4-week plan-do-study-act cycle after implementation of Vax the Max (5.3 versus 8.8 doses per plan-do-study-act cycle). Among residents, 76.8% reported that Vax the Max spurred their COVID-19 task engagement, and 66% reported that a similar gamification model could be utilized for a different clinical task in the future. An increase was observed in the COVID-19 vaccination rate for medicine inpatients after launching the Vax the Max competition. This occurred in the setting of resident turnover every 4 weeks, which normally makes practice sustainment more challenging. Despite this, a high degree of engagement was produced by itinerant residents. There is potential to explore similar gamification approaches involving resident physicians in areas of quality improvement and patient safety.</p>","PeriodicalId":7539,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medical Quality","volume":"38 1","pages":"47-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9797123/pdf/jmq-38-47.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10556503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathie Zhang, Jeremy Zhang, Tommy Robinson, Michael C Sauer, Sarah Van Dorin, Lauren Zabel, Yvonne De Sloover Koch, Matthew D Soltys
{"title":"Preventing Opioid-Related Toxicity at a Regional VA Medical Center: A Resident-Led Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project.","authors":"Kathie Zhang, Jeremy Zhang, Tommy Robinson, Michael C Sauer, Sarah Van Dorin, Lauren Zabel, Yvonne De Sloover Koch, Matthew D Soltys","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7539,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medical Quality","volume":"38 1","pages":"68-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10016470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Methodology of the Virtual Clinic in Cardiac Surgery in the Era of COVID-19: Adapting to the Future.","authors":"Jake L Rosen, Colin C Yost, T Sloane Guy","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000097","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic forever altered health care delivery models by necessitating expanded use of telehealth technology. While the implementation of telemedicine has been widely discussed among other specialties, cardiac surgery lacks robust literature regarding the use of telehealth in pre- and postoperative care. At our institution, we have implemented a comprehensive telehealth clinic in response to limitations on in-person visits at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We seek to share this methodology in the hopes that it can assist other institutions in providing care to those with barriers to in-person visits. In response to restrictions on in-person contact for those seeking medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine/telehealth was introduced and accelerated to allow remote access to health care. Early reports from the pandemic studying the feasi-bility and adaptability of telemedicine revealed that patients were quick to adapt and satisfied with their experience. 1–3 Mann et al showed that after the intro-duction of telehealth across the New York University Langone Health system, telehealth visits increased at a rate of 683% within 6 weeks. Physicians also noted that the transition to telehealth was important in how they delivered care and overcame potential barriers. 4 Within the realm of surgery, telemedicine has played a pivotal role in amplifying patient care. 5 A virtual clinic can optimize efficiency given increased variation in patients’ preference for visit modality (i.e., virtual, in-person, hybrid). This said, some surgical subspecialties have been slow to adopt telehealth, with surgeons citing the inability to perform a comprehensive examination within the visit as a primary barrier to quality care. 5,6 In cardiac surgery, scarce literature has been published on the processes required for an effective telemedicine visit in clinic","PeriodicalId":7539,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medical Quality","volume":"38 1","pages":"63-65"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9797116/pdf/jmq-38-63.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10016472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sandeep R Pagali, Rakesh Kumar, Sunyang Fu, Sunghwan Sohn, Mohammed Yousufuddin
{"title":"Natural Language Processing CAM Algorithm Improves Delirium Detection Compared With Conventional Methods.","authors":"Sandeep R Pagali, Rakesh Kumar, Sunyang Fu, Sunghwan Sohn, Mohammed Yousufuddin","doi":"10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000090","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Delirium is known to be underdiagnosed and underdocumented. Delirium detection in retrospective studies occurs mostly by clinician diagnosis or nursing documentation. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of natural language processing-confusion assessment method (NLP-CAM) algorithm when compared to conventional modalities of delirium detection. A multicenter retrospective study analyzed 4351 COVID-19 hospitalized patient records to identify delirium occurrence utilizing three different delirium detection modalities namely clinician diagnosis, nursing documentation, and the NLP-CAM algorithm. Delirium detection by any of the 3 methods is considered positive for delirium occurrence as a comparison. NLP-CAM captured 80% of overall delirium, followed by clinician diagnosis at 55%, and nursing flowsheet documentation at 43%. Increase in age, Charlson comorbidity score, and length of hospitalization had increased delirium detection odds regardless of the detection method. Artificial intelligence-based NLP-CAM algorithm, compared to conventional methods, improved delirium detection from electronic health records and holds promise in delirium diagnostics.</p>","PeriodicalId":7539,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medical Quality","volume":"38 1","pages":"17-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10072613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}