CS&E: Clinical Safety and Effectiveness

Past CS&E Cohort Presentations

• Addressing Access to Primary Care: A Systems-Level Analysis to Reduce Express Med Visits and Strengthen Patient-Centered Care at UHS


• Advance Directive and Power of Attorney Documentation in the UHS Liver Transplant Unit


• Advance Directives Quality Improvement Initiatives


• Appropriate utilization of procalcitonin for infections in hospitalized patients


• Blood Culture Contamination


• Clinical Staff Competency Training


• Communicating Laboratory Values to Night Float Physicians


• Compliance in the Documentation of Verbal Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships with Commercial Interest from Presenters


• Decrease the Patient Wait Times at the Breast Oncology Clinic, CTRC


• Decreasing Collection Time of Accounts


• Decreasing Inappropriate Use of Proton Pump Inhibitors for Prophylaxis of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract


• Decreasing Lag Time for Ward Collect Lab Draws


• Decreasing the Antibiotic Administration Time


• Decreasing the incidence of healthcare acquired Clostridium difficile infection


• Decreasing the number of hours on HFNC in the PIMC at CSRCH


• Decreasing the Unplanned Readmission Rate of Patients receiving Outpatient Antibiotic Therapy


• Decreasing Unplanned Extubations in a PICU


• Decreasing Wasteful CBC Orders


• Falls Reduction inthe Christus Santa Rosa ACE unit


• Falls Prevention at the MARC


• Identifying discharge goals reduces length of stay


• Implementation of an Electronic Medical Record in an Obstetrics Emergency Room/Triage Setting


• Implementation of an Evidence-Based Care Guideline for Inpatient Bronchiolitis Management


• Implementation of Discharge Planning Rounds on an Inpatient Internal Medicine Service


• Implementing PQRI measures in Two Subspecialty Practices at UT Medicine


• Implementing Resident Procedure Teams for Paracentesis at UHS/VA


• Improve CSRH ACE Unit Discharge Process


• Improve Patient Census & Referral Tracking to Grow Oncology Service Lines at CTRC


• Improve Rates of Advance Directive Documentation


• Improving Diabetic Testing in the UT Medicine Primary Care Clinic


• Improving Glycemic Control on a General Medicine Floor


• Improving Messaging and Response Times to Patients at the UT Family Medicine Clinic


• Improving Nurse to Nurse Communication During Patient Transfers


• Improving Provider Adherence in Dental School Outpatient Clinic


• Improving rate of mammograms of the patients of the Red Team in the UHS Medicine Clinic at Downtown UHS


• Improving Resident Handoffs in the Pediatric Unit at CSRH


• Improving Response Times for Secure Health Messaging at the UHS Family Health Northwest Clinic


• Improving response times to patients


• Improving the patient's cycle time at the Geriatric Evaluation & Management (GEM) Clinic at ALM-VA using a patient flow analysis


• Improving the Process of ACCME Documentation to fulfill the CME Mission


• Improving Weight-Based Vancomycin Dosing & Monitoring


• Increase Amount of Voriconazole Levels Ordered on Patients Hospitalized at UH.


• Increase Communication of Essential Elements in Patient Transfers of Care During Anesthesia


• Increase the mean number of variance reports by 50%


• Increasing a Culturally Competent 6 Part Delirium Protocol at ACE Unit at CSRH


• Increasing Palliative Care Consultations in the Medical Intensive Care Unit


• Increasing the Pneumococcal and Influenza vaccination hospitalized patients


• Integration of IOM Content into the Nursing Curriculum


• Interpreting for University Hospital's Spanish Speakers


• Medication Errors and Safety


• Medication Reconciliation in the FFACTS Clinic


• MRI Contrast Mis-administrations


• No Shows Rate in the MARC Ophthalmology Clinic


• Overdue Results at Westover Hills


• Patient Safety Assistant Utilization


• PEG Tube Patient Returns at the UHS Outpatient Gastroenterology Endoscopy Lab


• Performance Improvement Team Transfusion Delays


• Pre-Operative Antibiotic Timing Congenital Heart Program


• Reduce the incidence of self-extubation in the STICU


• Reducing CMV Negative Blood Transfusions in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology


• Reducing discharge times – From Order to Door


• Reducing inappropriate emergency room visits of patients from UT Medicine Senior Health Nursing homes


• Reducing Number of Falls Among Patients Visiting the MARC for Outpatient Appointments


• Reduction of Patient Treatment Time in Radiation Therapy


• Reduction of T&O Treatment Cancellation Rate


• Safe use of Radiation during Fluoroscopy Procedures


• Safety in Opiate Prescribing


• The "Garfield" Project


• The Development of a Standardized Protocol For Resident Hand-Offs on the Podiatric Patient


• The Impact of a Procedure Service on Patients Presenting with Pleural Effusions


• Time is Money! Reducing Claim Denials and Write-offs To Improve Revenue Cycle


• Time to Reach Out and Touch Them – Timely Telecommunication within the GEM Clinic


• To increase the notification of primary care physicians (PCP) when their patients are admitted or discharged


• Utilization of Evidence-Based practice resources


• UTSHCSA SOM Revenue Cycle Enhancement Project


• Venous Thromboembolisis Prophylaxis


• Women's Health Venous Thromboembolism