IHQSE Mission

The Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency mission 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.

Program Offerings

Certificate
Training Program

Facilitative Leadership Course

Introductory Training Program

Lean Training Program

Quality & Safety Academy

6S Training
Program

 

IHQSE Featured News

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IHQSE Faculty Publish Successes of Early-career Quality and Leadership Training Program

IHQSE faculty published the six-year follow up of the success of University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Health Innovations Scholars Program. The program enrolls pre-clinical medical students from around the country in an intensive summer training program in quality improvement, patient safety, leadership skills, design thinking and change management. The program has showed a durable impact on students ongoing participation and leadership of quality and innovation work.
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Sustaining Change: 5 Years Later Antibiotic Stewardship Project Reveals 26% Reduction in Use

Drs. Christine MacBrayne, Jason Child and Sarah Parker shared the 5-year follow up of the ‘handshake stewardship’ program developed in the Certificate Training Program. The program has resulted in a sustained 26% reduction in antimicrobial use and saved millions of dollars all without changes in balancing measures such as length of stay, mortality or readmissions.
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IHQSE Leaders Reduce Hospitalist Burnout by 30%

Founding IHQSE faculty members Drs. Read Pierce and Patrick Kneeland published the results of a 3-year intervention to improve well-being and reduce burnout in a hospitalist group. The intervention resulted in a 27% reduction in burnout.

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‘Handshake Stewardship’ Program Backbone of TJC's Best Practices in Antimicrobial Stewardship

Two recent publications, one from TJC and the other from the CDC highlight Certificate Training Program graduates Drs. Sarah Parker, Jason Child and Christine MacBrayne’s innovative ‘handshake stewardship’ program. Developed during of their time in the Certificate Training Program, the program does not rely on traditional stewardship policies such as preauthorization of antimicrobials.

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IHQSE Featured Project Outcomes

Opportunity: Reduce length of stay (LOS), improve outcomes in geriatric hip fracture patients.

Intervention: Standardized order set with compliance reporting; cohorted patients on orthopedic unit and service.

Outcome: Reduced LOS by 1 day, decreased readmissions by 16% and reduced 1-year mortality by 48%.

Opportunity: Improve length of stay (LOS) for palliative care patients.

Intervention: Moved consult earlier in hospital stay.

Outcome: Patients received treatment 14 hours earlier improving pain and symptom scores, reducing LOS by 1.7 days. Total projected savings of $3 million per year.

Opportunity: Antimicrobial over-utilization results in side effects, excess length of stay (LOS) and avoidable cost.

Intervention: Implemented "handshake stewardship" program.

Outcome: Antibiotic usage reduced by 25%, C. difficile rates by 41%. Reduced LOS for patients on antibiotics by 8% and pharmacy costs by $1-2 million annually.

Opportunity: Reduce readmission rate. 

Intervention: Standardized transition process, follow up phone call, focus on medications.

Outcome: Reduced readmissions by 42%: sustained for over 5 years.

Spread: Framework incorporated into hospital care management workflows.

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Contact

Jeff Glasheen, MD
IHQSE Director

IHQSE Administrative Support
SOM.IHQSE@ucdenver.edu

 

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IHQSE Director