EZ MEDICINE QUALITY COUNCIL-SCIC EZMQC-Strategic Clinical Improvement Committee -Quarterly Newsletter
Congratulations!!!! The EZMQC Committee are the recipients of the 2019 University of Alberta– Department of Medicine Cooperation, Collaboration and Teamwork (CCT) Award
Grant Recipients! The following QI projects are AHS QI Innovation fund recipients: 1.Ensuring appropriate Oxygen Use-UAH GIM Units 2.Scale and Spread –Tackling Lab test ordering overuse (SCH, and GNCH 3.Dermatology– Allergen Avoidance in Glove-induced Allergic Contact Dermatitis 4.Supporting Patients with Sickle cell anemia in timely ED care
Abstract Accepted! 2019 International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE) Using Quality Improvement (QI) Methodology to Develop a Standardized QI Educational Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents
June 2019
Connect Care Update Connect Care Wave 1 is scheduled to go-live at the UAH, KEC, Stollery in-patient sites and all out-patient sites that currently use eClinician on Sunday Nov 3, 2019 @ 0400h. Within the Clinical Department of Medicine we have 9 physician Area Trainers and 36 physician Super Users registered for training, across 14 divisions. Physicians in DoM will be trained in one or more of the following tracks: In-patient/ambulatory - LARGEST Hematology/oncology GI/Endoscopy Key Dates:
Date
Milestone
Jun 1 –30
Area Trainer Training
June 24 – July 12
Super User Training
June 30
All Wave 1 physicians registered
Aug 5 – Oct 25
End User Training
Aug 5 – Oct 15
Basic training
Sept 20 – Oct 25
Personalization
Nov 3
Wave 1 Launch
Nov 25 – Dec 20
End User Training Optimization
Time Commitment for Training:
Training Module
Directed Learning
Self Directed Learning
Further information:
Basic Training
4 hours
2 hours
Personalization
3 hours
0-1 hours
handbook.connect-care.ca bytes.connect-care.ca
Optimization
1-2 hours
0-1 hours
Total Time
8 hours
3 hours
Featured Quality Improvement Projects Living Kidney Donor (LKD) Hero Assessment Process Project Lead: Dr Soroush Shojai Compared to chronic dialysis, kidney transplantation (KT) in eligible patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is associated with better patient survival, improved quality of life, and lower healthcare costs (transplanting 10 more patients per year, can save healthcare system approximately $7.2 million over 5 years). However, many patients die waiting for KT due to the growing gap between demand and supply of a organ. Therefore, living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) is the realistic way to save lives. In Alberta, ESRD prevalence has increased 40% over the last decade but 19 out of 20 of Albertans under the age of 60 with ESRD start on dialysis (suboptimal treatment) instead of kidney transplantation. Our data (2016) shows LKD evaluation process takes almost one year and requires at least 13 encounters between the potential donor and the health system (various appointments for Lab tests, radiology, vaccination, Social worker, coordinators and doctors) which has a direct impact on the number of potential kidney donors accounting for our only 14% conversion rate of potential donors to actual donors. The LKD QI team, developed a 2 day diagnostic assessment process which was tested with 2 potential LKDs in 2018. Patients arrived at 7:00 and was approved for kidney donation at 16:30 the same day. The patient and care providers were very satisfied with the process. All feedback gathered is currently being re-
2019 EZMQC-SCIC Meetings: Save the dates! September 19, 2019 December 5, 2019
Contact Us Pamela Mathura-QI Consultant pam.mathura@ahs.ca Dr. Narmin Kassam-Associate Chair, Clinical Affairs nkassam@ualberta.ca Yvonne Suranyi-Executive Directive EZ Medicine
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