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IMPROVING OUTCOMES

42% Reduction in Readmission Rate in Medical Patients

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Reduced no-show rate from 37% to 16% amongst high-risk patients living with HIV.

CREATING THE SCIENCE

Handshake Stewardship Program becomes National Standard for Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs

The Joint Commission

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48% Reduction in 1-year Mortality in Hip Fracture Patients

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$2 Million Annual Reduction in Antibiotic Costs

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$3 Million Annual Savings with Earlier Palliative Care Intervention

The mission of the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety & Efficiency is to create healthcare systems that ensure every patient receives the highest quality of care while avoiding harm, minimizing inefficiencies, and developing leaders in quality and safety.


Transformation, Not Just Education

At IHQSE our overarching goal is to fundamentally improve the care provided to patients by developing people, improving care processes and building higher-achieving organizations. 



In other words, our goal is to transform:

to transform

INDIVIDUALS

We develop the capacity of frontline clinicians to drive change.

to transform

PROCESSES

We drive improvements in clinical care processes, leading to better outcomes.

to transform

ORGANIZATIONS

 We help build higher-performing systems through sustained changes.


Learn more about our programs


Results that Matter

Our formula for transformation combines expert training, intensive, tailored coaching, a deep catalog of successful projects to tap into, and a relentless drive for outcomes.

500+ qi/ps projects completed
$200 million in reduced inefficiencies
200K patients impacted
150+ Graduates in Quality or Health System Leadership Positions
2 to 5 improvement in CMS star rating

*IHQSE supported improvement at the University of Colorado Hospital


IHQSE Newsroom


For over a decade, our dedicated faculty have built an integrated set of programs aimed at developing programmatic leaders in quality, creating high-quality, safe and efficient clinical care processes and, ultimately, driving profound organization-level improvements.  Here are just a few of our recent successes. 

For more, please see our
newsroom.

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Ready to Roll: Team Effort Bucks Sedation Trend

Jul 31, 2023
Most patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation in Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Units (CTICU) – which treat some of the hospitals’ sickest patients – remain sedated and bedridden for the bulk of their stay. A team of IHQSE Alumni are helping to change that and improve patient outcomes, starting with one strong-willed young woman named Chenille.
Journal of Hospital Medicine

Take Your PICC: IHQSE Faculty Develops Support Tool to Improve Appropriate Catheter Usage

Apr 13, 2023
Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) provide reliable central vascular access for hospitalized patients, but PICCs are associated with morbid and potentially lethal complications. To curb these outcomes, IHQSE Faculty Dr. Tyler Anstett and team developed a decision support tool in the EHR to help hospital-based providers utilize more appropriate catheter devices for their patients.
Applied Clinical Informatics

A Nudge in the Right Direction: IHQSE Faculty Member Engages Clinicians to Rethink EHR Design

Jan 14, 2023
The transfusion of blood is a life-saving measure but is sometimes overused leading to worse outcomes for patients and excess costs for health systems. A team including IHQSE Faculty member Dr. Tyler Anstett engaged clinicians from different specialties to rethink the design of blood transfusion orders in the EHR at University of Colorado Hospital.
The Laryngoscope

Tonsillectomy Patients: Should they Stay or Should they Go?

Aug 1, 2022
IHQSE Certificate Training Program Graduates Dr. Norman Friedman, Renee Crowder and Sarah Derieg developed a set of screening criteria to predict children who would need overnight monitoring after surgery for sleep-disordered breathing. They report that 75% of patients did not have a prolonged oxygen requirement making them candidates for same day surgery. The probability of a prolonged oxygen requirement was only 18% if patients did not have a diagnosis of asthma or a resting pulse oxygen measurement of < 96%. They conclude that all patients who are off oxygen within 3 hours of surgery and pass a sleep room air challenge are safe for discharge to home.

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