2020 Patient Safety & Quality Symposium: Leveraging Quality Improvement to Affect Change - Building High Reliability within an Academic Medical Center

This year’s theme focuses on using data and innovation to support behavioral and process transformation to improve patient outcomes. In the following presentations you will learn how to define the elements of a QI project, describe how to use data to drive quality improvement, recognize role of change management in quality improvement projects, and discuss the role of quality improvement projects in creating a high reliability organization.


Leveraging Data to Support Healthcare Delivery Innovation

Find out how the Healthcare Innovation Lab identifies and implements care delivery to help our patients and the community.
Thomas Maddox, MD, MSc

Thomas Maddox, MD, MSc

Executive Director, Healthcare Innovation Lab BJC HealthCare/Washington University School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine in Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine

Using Improvement Science to Standardize Pre- and Post-Operative Handoff: A Multi-Center Approach

See how improvement science can be applied to safe transitions of care.
Beverly Brozanski, MD

Beverly Brozanski, MD

Professor of Pediatrics,
Washington University School of Medicine
Joan Smith, PhD, RN, NNP-BC, FAAN

Joan Smith, PhD, RN, NNP-BC, FAAN

Director of Quality, Safety & Practice Excellence,
St. Louis Children’s Hospital

Leveraging Quality Improvement to Effectively Implement Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions

Find out how quality improvement can positively affect antibiotic prescribing.
Jason Newland, MD, MEd

Jason Newland, MD, MEd

Professor of Pediatrics
Washington University School of Medicine

Nudging Innovation and Leading Change

Leading change in healthcare can be tricky. Emerging research on organizational and behavioral design can inform hospital leaders seeking to manage innovation of their systems.
Peter Boumgarden, PhD

Peter Boumgarden, PhD

Professor of Practice of Strategy and Organization
Olin Business School, Washington University

The Science of Improvement

This slide deck, provided by Lloyd Provost, MS, will help outline the differences between QI and research methods, and offer insight to integrate research and improvement into your work.
Lloyd Provost, MS

Lloyd Provost, MS

Improvement Advisor, Associates in Process Improvement

Integrating Research and Quality Improvement

This slide deck shows how finding the right balance between clinical research and quality improvement can accelerate advances in health care.
Lloyd Provost, MS

Lloyd Provost, MS

Improvement Advisor, Associates in Process Improvement

Spinning Through PDSAs

This slide deck provides the key concepts of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Model for Improvement and how to apply them to rapid, small scale tests of change.
Emily Wambold, MSN, RN, CPNP, APN

Emily Wambold, MSN, RN, CPNP, APN

Quality, Safety & Practice Excellence,
St. Louis Children’s Hospital