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Because of their expertise and insight into the quality improvement
process, QCMetrix personnel are frequently asked to lecture
at healthcare conferences and to provide material for publication.
The latest examples of their knowledge-sharing include:
Facing the Inevitable: Surgical Quality
and Outcomes Made Public
Informatics in the Assessment of Quality
of Surgical Care
Majed G. Tomeh, MS, MBA
24-Apr-2004 / American College
of Surgeons, Spring Meeting / Boston, MA
Measuring quality and reporting outcomes is an important
and critical component for the practicing surgeon. Surgical
outcome data are also becoming more openly available to the
public and consumers. Payors and legislators are urging for
a wide, public dissemination of outcome-based, provider-specific
performance measures. This session is dedicated to surgeon
involvement in the use of outcomes for the comparative assessment
and improvement of the quality of surgical care and the role
of technology and informatics in these efforts.
A History of Healthcare
Quality Improvement
Katherine S. Rowell, MS, MHA
24-Mar-2004 / NSQIP National
Nurses Conference / San Antonio, TX
Beginning with John Snow, MD and the cholera outbreak of
1854, Ms. Rowell's lecture reviews the history of quality
improvement. She discusses Florence Nightingale and the “Polar
Area Diagram”, Ernest Codman, MD and the reporting of
Surgical Outcomes, Edward Demming’s ground-breaking
14 points for achieving quality and continues up to the present-day
healthcare quality crusader, Donald Berwick, MD. Ms. Rowell
shows how these historical events have lead to our current
understanding of how vital Evidence, Numbers and Comparison
are to all healthcare quality improvement efforts.
Using Your NSQIP Data to Inform & Promote
Quality Efforts at Your Hospital
Janet Steeger, BSN
24-Mar-2004 / NSQIP National
Nurses Conference / San Antonio, TX
In this interactive seminar, using case-study methodology,
Janet delivers not only a lecture but also facilitates a series
of hands-on activities. The NSQIP nurses from participating
hospitals learn how to interpret their NSQIP data and become
empowered to lead improvement efforts at their hospitals.
ACCESS Database Training
Steve Merzlak, BSCS & Craig Miller,
BSEE
24-Mar-2004 / NSQIP National
Nurses Conference / San Antonio, TX
This interactive workshop teaches nurses how to perform simple
queries using Microsoft ACCESS databases and to gain an understanding
of relational databases. As more data is available to sites,
the importance of database proficiency will only increase.
Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures
Katherine S. Rowell, MS, MHA
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
North Shore Medical Center
Mt. Auburn
Hospital
University of Virginia Medical Center
Danbury Hospital
Automation of Surgical Data Collection for
Quality Improvement
Manisha M. Sheode, MS; Steve Merzlak, BS;
Craig Miller, BS; Laura A. Noirot, BS; Bruce L. Hall, MD;
Tamara Fraley, BS, RN, MMR; Wm. Claiborne Dunagan, MD; and
Thomas C. Bailey, MD
Abstract
We are developing a system to automate the task of collecting
surgical data for institutional quality improvement and patient
safety analysis. This system will also satisfy a growing need
to report detailed clinical information to programs such as
the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program/Patient
Safety in Surgery data accrual project (NSQIP/PSS) in a timely,
cost effective and accurate manner. Manual entry of readily
available electronic data is not sustainable and must be automated
if institutions are to optimize their use of these data to
understand and improve clinical care.
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