Publications

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Oct 8, 2020

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.

Oct 4, 2019

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.

Mar 20, 2018

IHQSE faculty member, Dr. Patrick Kneeland publishes his work on the importance of integrating patient perspectives to improve health care delivery.

Feb 1, 2019

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.

Jul 19, 2015

Certificate Training Program graduates, Drs. James Borgstede and Kristen Nordenholz published the results of their project on ED efficiency. Utilizing the robust process improvement techniques and leadership skills developed in CTP the team was able to reduce time-to-CT scan in Emergency Department patients lowering overall ED LOS by 11 minutes. This change netted an annual estimated $450,000 in savings and $1,540,000 in revenue from new patients.

Oct 30, 2017

Dr. Sarah Parker, a pediatric infectious disease expert and graduate of the Certificate Training Program shares the more than $2 million cost savings obtained by building the hospital’s antimicrobial stewardship program through the CTP.

Oct 30, 2017

Drs. Mary Anderson, Jason Stoneback and Kelly McDevitt, RN Certificate Training Program graduates and Dr. Ethan Cumbler, a founding faculty member of IHQSE share the outcomes of a comprehensive geriatric hip fracture program. The program, completed as part of the Certificate Training Program resulted in nearly a day reduction in length of stay, increases in patient follow up, and significant improvements in osteoporosis treatment.

Sep 8, 2017

Dr. Ethan Cumbler, an IHQSE faculty member and Drs. Mary Anderson, (Hospitalist), Jason Stoneback, (Orthopedic Surgeon) and Kelly McDevitt (Registered Nurse) Certificate Training Program graduates publish the outcomes of a comprehensive geriatric hip fracture program. Completed as part of the Certificate Training Program, the program resulted in a statistically significant improvement in 1-year survival in geriatric patients suffering a hip fracture.

Sep 1, 2017

Drs. Ethan Cumbler and Read Pierce, both IHQSE faculty members help to understand how QI success can lead to future failure. Using the analogy of airplane lift the two show how flight (QI success) leads to increased wingtip vortices spiraling behind the plane resulting in drag (difficulty sustaining success with current and future QI projects) and offer suggestions to address the change fatigue common in QI.

May 15, 2017

The IHQSE Certificate Training Program helped Dr. Sarah Parker, an infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado build stronger interactions between the infectious disease and clinical teams.

Oct 1, 2016

Drs. Jason Child and Sarah Parker, Certificate Training Program graduates published the outcomes of their QI project showing a 10.9% reduction in antimicrobial use over a 4-year period. Their ‘handshake stewardship’ program resulted in a greater than 20% reduction in broad spectrum antibiotic usage such as vancomycin and meropenem.

Sep 4, 2016

IHQSE faculty members Drs. Read Pierce, Darlene Tad-y and Patrick Kneeland publish their experience with redeveloping the M&M model to focus on systems-based quality improvement.

Jun 1, 2016

IHQSE faulty members Drs. Ethan Cumbler and Patrick Kneeland report on the key factors motivating participation in interprofessional QI teams. High-functioning teams, a focus on patient-centered outcomes and a drive for professional growth were all predictive of participation and should inform the development of future QI project teams.

Dec 31, 2013

Founding IHQSE faculty members, Drs. Ethan Cumbler and Jeff Glasheen detailed their process of looking to positive outliers (deviants) for answers to QI’s most nettlesome problems. By learning from top performing centers in the country the team was able to reduce the time-to-thrombolytics from 71 minutes to 43 minutes in patients with acute stroke.

Dec 1, 2013

When it comes to improving hand hygiene Dr. Ethan Cumbler, IHQSE faculty member turned to core principles of psychology to drive hand hygiene compliance from 78% to 97%.

Oct 8, 2020

Drs. Pierce and Kneeland, founding faculty members of IHQSE show how addressing the limits of brainpower can lead to better patient outcomes.

Mar 1, 2017

Dr. Sarah Parker, an IHQSE graduate from Children’s Colorado Hospital reports on the benefits of a streamlined antibiotic regimen in children with appendicitis. The work, a by-product of their enrollment in the Certificate Training Program shows how a simplified antimicrobial regimen can lower costs and improve outcomes in patients with or without perforated appendices.

Oct 7, 2016

IHQSE Director, Dr. Jeff Glasheen published the outcomes of a QI project resulting in approximately 60% less underdosing and 40% less overdosing of vancomycin in critically ill ICU patients.

Dec 11, 2016

Certificate Training Program graduate Dr. Mary Anderson and IHQSE faculty members Drs. Jeff Glasheen and Read Pierce report no difference in hospital LOS or mortality in states who did and didn’t expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.