How To Create Problem Solvers:
Tools in Quality Improvement Education
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Rachel Smith, MS, PA-C
No disclosures or conflicts of interest
Objectives1. Define the basic tenets of quality improvement and
patient safety
2. Explain the role of the triple aim and its relationship to health care
3. Identify the importance of creating a culture of quality and safety
4. Employ techniques to engage students in the subject of quality improvement
5. Implement a quality improvement proposal assignment
6. Integrate patient safety and cost-effectiveness analysis learning strategies into your curriculum
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What is Quality Improvement?
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It's not...
• Quality Assurance
• Quality Control
• Quality Assessment
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What is Quality?
“The degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional
knowledge (AHRQ, 2012)."
Quality Improvement is a
systematic approach to
improving quality in healthcare
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Quality Improvement Frameworks
• Donnabeian
• Institute of Medicine domains
• Institute for Healthcare
Improvement "No Needless List"
• Dr. Deming's 14 points
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Donabedian Model
(AHRQ, 2011)
Structure
Facility
Infrastructure
Culture
Staffing
Technology
Process
Diagnosis
Treatment
Resources
Preventative health
Time
Outcome
Morbidity
Mortality
Readmission
Quality of life
Cost
Infections
IOM Six Domains
1. Safe2. Effective3. Patient-centered4. Timely5. Efficient6. Equitable
(AHRQ, 2018)
IHI "No Needless" List• No needless deaths (safe)
• No needless pain or suffering (effective)
• No helplessness in those served or serving (patient-centered)
• No unwanted waiting (timely)
• No waste (efficient)
• No one left out (equitable)
(IHI, 2010)
Deming’s 14-point approach
• Focus on improving effectiveness of
organizations
• Applied to fields outside of
healthcare
• Designed PDSA cycle
• This approach led to the
development of LEAN
(ASQ,2019)
3 key questions in the PDSA cycle
Three (Ideas)
What changes can we make that will result in improvement?
Two (Measures)
How will we know that a change is an improvement?
One (AIM)
What are we trying to accomplish?
https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/2142/plan-do-study-act.pdf
https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/2142/plan-do-study-act.pdf
PDSA Cycle
https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/2142/plan-do-study-act.pdf
https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/2142/plan-do-study-act.pdf
Broader system of linked goals to
improve the overall health system
https://www.verywellhealth.com/triple-aim-4174961
https://www.verywellhealth.com/triple-aim-4174961
Coude Conundrum
PDSA In Action
PDSA CycleAIM: Reduce the number of consults to the urology
service for coude catheter insertion.
• Plan: Nurse training at orientation, nurse
education/demonstration
• Do: Implemented the plan
• Study: Reduced number of consults to urology service,
nurses empowered and now feel comfortable with
coude catheters
• Act: Barrier was supplies and concern with breaking the
red seal, start having coude kits on every unit
Why does QI matter?
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PA Profession
• Play a role in fixing our healthcare system
• Improves patient care and experience
• Adds value
• Unique position for QI due to history of multiple roles
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PA Students
• Practical, marketable skill for the workforce
• Mindset before clinical: Avoid learned helplessness
• Empower!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsjj_-5RlkI
Seligman and Maier Learned
Helplessness Experiment
http://animalethics.umwblogs.org/experimentation-2/
http://animalethics.umwblogs.org/experimentation-2/
Learned helplessness
"A phenomenon in which repeated exposure to uncontrollable stressors results in individuals failing to use any control options that may later become available. Essentially, individuals are said to learn
that they lack behavioral control over environmental events, which, in turn, undermines the motivation to
make changes or attempt to alter situations."
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(APA, 2019)
Patient Safety
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https://www.nap.edu/catalog/9728/to-err-is-human-building-a-safer-health-system
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/9728/to-err-is-human-building-a-safer-health-system
To Err is Human, 1999
• Estimated 44,000-98,000 deaths annually
from medical error
• Recommended plan to address patient
safety
(Stelfox, Palmisani, Scurlock, Orav, & Bates ,2006)
Other Mortality Studies
• 195,000 deaths from medical error (AHRQ, 2004)
• 180,000/year in Medicare beneficiaries alone (US HHS, 2008)
• 210,000-400,000/year from systematic review (James,2013)
• Mean calculated from studies= 251,454deaths a year
(Makary M., & Daniel M., 2016)
(Makary M., & Daniel M., 2016)
Beyond Mortality• 1 in 10 patients develop an adverse event (AHRQ
Efforts, 2014)
• 1 in 2 surgeries had a medication error and/or adverse drug event (Nanji et al., 2015)
• Over 700,000 emergency department visits per year for adverse medication events (Budnitz et al., 2006)
• More than 12 million patients a year experience a diagnostic error in outpatient care, half of which cause harm (Singh et al., 2014)
• 1/3 of Medicare beneficiaries in skilled nursing facilities experience an adverse event, half were preventable (OIG, 2014)
Types of Error• Adverse event: Any harm that occurs to
a patient due to their medical care or stay in a health care facility
• Error: act of comission or omission leading to undesirable outcome or potential for such an outcome
• Near miss: event that could have had adverse consequences but did not
• Never event: preventable, catastrophic events, 29 identified by National Quality Forum
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(Askin, E., Moore, N., 2014)
Never Events• Surgery on the wrong body part, on the wrong patient, or the wrong procedure performed
• Retention of foreign object after surgery
• Intraoperative or immediate postoperative death in an ASA class 1 patient
• Death or serious disability associated with the use of Death or serious disability from a/an:
Medication error
Patient elopement
incompatible blood products
hypoglycemia
spinal manipulative therapy
electric shock
burn
fall
• Infant discharged to the wrong person
• Death or serious disability associated with patient elopement
• Patient suicide or attempted suicide in a healthcare facility
• Maternal death or serious disability associated with labor or delivery in a low risk pregnancy
• Death or disability associated with failure to treat hyperbilirubinemia in neonates
• Stage 3 or 4 pressure ulcers after admission
• Artificial insemination with the wrong donor sperm or wrong egg
• Line designated for oxygen is carrying the wrong gas
• Any care ordered by or provided by someone impersonating a physician, nurse, pharmacist, or
other licensed healthcare provider
• Patient abduction at any age
• Sexual assault on a patient within the grounds of a healthcare facility
How medical errors happen
https://elearning.rcog.org.uk//human-factors/clinical-error/swiss-cheese-model
https://elearning.rcog.org.uk/human-factors/clinical-error/swiss-cheese-model
Why does patient safety matter?
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PA Students
• Increase awareness of problem
• Decrease shame
• Understanding flaws of our healthcare system
• Responsibility as a provider
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What is a Culture of Safety?
• Acknowledge high risk
• Blame-free
• Collaboration for solutions
• Organizational commitment
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Teaching QI & Patient Safety
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Do PA Programs Teach QI?
70.6 % of programs teach QI and 27% had a mature curriculum
Programs Teaching QI
Yes
No
(Berkowitz, O., Goldgar, C., White, SE., Warner, ML., 2019)
Barriers to teaching QI
• Time
• Experienced faculty
• Challenge making subject interesting to students
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Should we teach QI?• B2.16 The curriculum must include instruction in:
a) patient safety,b) prevention of medical errors,c) quality improvement, andd) risk management.
• PANCE Professional Practice (5%) includes quality improvement and patient safety(NCCPA, PANCE Content Blueprint, 2019)
(ARC-PA Standards, Fifth edition, 2019)
Tools to Teach QI and Patient Safety
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Resources for the Instructor
• IHI Modules
• IHI Toolkit
• AHRQ modules
Teaching Tools in QI
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QI Proposal
• Part of Health Policy course
• Pick a topic
• Topic approval
• Turn in proposal (end of term)
• 25% of final grade
Student Examples
• EMT pediatric dosing chart for rural EMS
• Standardize EMS reports to ED "ring" report
• Patient flow with Accutane and urine pregnancy tests
• Patient meal ordering from television remote
• Order set changes to avoid middle of the night vital signs
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Rubric
QI Proposal
• Encourage creativity
• Work through barriers
• Support submission of proposal to organization
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Additional Opportunities
• Assign IHI Modules
• Pick 1-2 QI proposals to implement
during the clinical year (can use IHI
toolkit)
• AHRQ Case Studies
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Teaching Tools in Patient Safety
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Patient Safety
• Personal story
• IHI Modules and videos
• Web M&M Cases
• Classroom M&M
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Submit Patient Safety Report
• Assignment in health policy class
• Through our hospital’s occurrence
reporting system
Patient Sign Out
• Record a real sign out (HIPAA compliant)
• Game of telephone
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https://wondery.com/shows/dr-death/
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"Ultimately, the secret of quality is love. You
have to love your patients, you have to love your
profession, you have to love your God. If you
have love, you can work backward to monitor
and improve the system"
-Avedis Donabedian
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