GET BETTER FASTER! QUALITY IMPROVEMENT SKILLS FOR RELIABLE CARE

When: Apr 24, 2013 from 08:00 to 17:30 (MT)

The imperative to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of medical care is driving physicians and health care organizations to become more accountable for the outcomes they are producing. Learning how to improve our performance is becoming a core competency for physicians, and many academic internists find themselves involved in educating residents on improvement methods. However, practicing physicians may have never learned effective, structured approaches to improving care delivery to patients. Indeed, past experiences in time consuming and weak improvement efforts can leave us disengaged or skeptical.

This full-day course will introduce the Model for Improvement, a structured approach to improving processes that incorporates the PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycle, along with Reliable Design principles. These techniques are adopted and disseminated by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Through a combination of focused didactics and hands-on exercises, participants will learn the structure and tools to drive rapidly-paced improvement projects, making changes that are likely to be effective and sustainable.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Create manageable projects to improve process performance
Identify effective measures of performance for use in process improvement
Develop hypotheses for improving care and test them using the PDSA cycle
Describe standardization and how to incorporate in their own projects
Learn to use PI tools such as process mapping, run charts, and fishbone diagrams
Implement processes that detect errors and correct them
Sustain continuous improvement through study of process failures

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Beginning and intermediate learners in process improvement will gain the most from this course. Quality improvement educators will experience curriculum elements in use at the course faculty institutions that can be incorporated into their local curricula.

Important Dates

February 2, 2013

Online registration opens

March 13, 2013

Registration fee increases

April 11, 2013

Final Registration Deadline

Registration Fees

$200

SGIM Full Members

$150

Trainees (members and non-members)

$250

Non-member physicians

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Location

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Denver, CO