1) Two 3-day in-person sessions in Toronto, Canada 2) Longitudinal #QI project 3) Webinars for participants to receive feedback on their projects 4) Personalized coaching from expert program faculty
Learn from the best — here are just a few of the expert @CQuIPS faculty you will interact with if you enroll in EQUIP
International patient safety and quality improvement expert, co-chair of the NPSF “Free from Harm — 15 yrs after To Err is Human” expert panel, and Editor in Chief at @BMJ_Qual_Saf
Dr. Olivia Ostrow (not on Twitter)
Patient safety lead for the Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at @SickKidsNews and Paediatric Lead for @ChooseWiselyCA Antibiotics Wisely initiative
Hospitalist Director at @SinaiHealth and Cross-Institutional QI Implementation Director for @hvpaa, author of several high-value care implementation guides in @JAMAInternalMed
Medical Officer for Patient Safety at @SickKidsNews, site-lead for only non-US site in the IPASS handoff study, and Associate Clinical Director for @sps4kids — patient safety network of 100+ children’s hospitals across North America
Dr. Edward Etchells (not on Twitter)
Medical Director of Information Services at @Sunnybrook
His original study “Unintended Medication Discrepancies at the Time of Hospital Admission” in @JAMAInternalMed contributed to establishing med rec globally as a #ptsafety best practice
A physiatrist and Clinician in Quality and Innovation at @Sunnybrook (St. Johns Rehab) with a background in clinical engineering with a focus on human factors engineering and usability of health technology.
Dr. Eric Monteiro (not on Twitter)
An otolaryngologist at @SinaiHealth with an interest in developing and evaluating quality indicators for various conditions in the field of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck surgery
Marie Pinard (not on Twitter)
Director of Quality, Safety & Patient Experience at @WCHospital with prior background in front-line nursing, she spearheaded the development of a robust process for ethical oversight of QI projects at @SickKidsNews & has reviewed over 1000 proposals
Medical Director of Quality and Patient Safety at @Sunnybrook and graduate of the inaugural EQUIP program! Has a strong academic interest in resource stewardship and is the chair of the @CSIMSCMI Choosing Wisely Committee
Leahora Rotteau (not on Twitter)
Program manager at @CQuIPS with expertise in using qualitative methods to understand the context of quality improvement implementation
Director of @CQuIPS with a strong interest in QIPS education, chaired the expert working group that advised on the integration of QIPS competencies into @Royal_College CanMEDS 2015 competency framework
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I often hear people say that we should apply what we know from #QI to the #COVID19 response -- the concerns around COVID testing and trying to increase our testing capacity serve as a good example where knowledge of systems can be helpful. A thread.
He uses this analogy of a Rube Goldberg machine to describe complex systems in healthcare.
Rube Goldberg machines are intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overly complicated way
E.g., a pencil sharpener
A: Open window
B: Fly kite
C: Pull pulley
D: Lift cage door
E: Release Moths
F: Eat coat
G: Raise boot
H: Flip switch
I: Turn on iron
J: Burn shirt
K/L: Smoke out opossum
M: Jump out of tree
N: Land in basket
O/P: Lift cage
Q: Reveal woodpecker
R: Sharpen pencil
I have set my clock to 10:30 AM to get @jkwan_md's amazingly informative updates on Ontario's #COVID19 situation.
Want to take this opportunity to thank her immensely, but also reflect on 4 #COVID19 curves that really worry me.
The first is the fact that we have no known Epi-link for 50% of our new cases -- @IrfanDhalla points this out repeatedly as a major barrier to properly #TestTraceIsolate
The 2nd is the fact that our testing turnaround time is getting longer -- for the first time since early April, we have more pending test results than reported test results (a whopping 48,000 tests pending) -- which means a delay to identifying cases and proper #TestTraceIsolate
Would like to highlight these amazing #QI posters from resident programs in medicine (@UofT_DoM), pediatrics (@SickKidsNews) and family medicine (@UofTFamilyMed)
Today, as the Director of the Centre for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety (@CQuIPS) at the University of Toronto (@uoftmedicine) sent a message to all of our members -- a call to action to mobilize now to support health system efforts to respond to #COVID19
"Our focus at @CQuIPS will be to mobilize as many of our members, graduates and current students and direct them towards their local QI efforts to respond to the #COVID19 pandemic."
I urged each and every one of them to strongly consider whether any non-COVID related initiatives can be put on hold for now, and direct their time and energy to help our health system respond to the #COVID19 pandemic
We are now accepting applications for EQUIP for 2020-21, our #QI certificate course at @CQuIPS that prepares faculty & senior trainees to lead QI in academic environments. Pls retweet & encourage others to apply. Deadline for applications is March 27, 2020 cpd.utoronto.ca/equip
An important thread for how we as GIM/hospitalists can communicate more effectively with our primary care colleagues at the time of discharge — @AM_Cressman we should send to our trainees on CTU right now. #MedEd
1) I need to spend as much or more effort confirming the patient’s primary care provider (who likely sees patient regularly) as I do figuring out who their specialists are (who might only see patient 1-2 times per year)...
2) In a discharge summary, when listing follow up instructions that involve the patient’s primary care provider, address them by name — I’m definitely guilty of typing “Family doctor to check patients BP in a week...”