SafetyQuest: Level Four - Mastering QI

Friday, November 16, 2018, 12:00 AM - Monday, January 1, 2024, 12:00 AM, Online Course

Modern healthcare is complex and has many opportunities for error. To ensure patient safety, hospitals and healthcare systems must continually strive to work together as a team, create a culture of patient safety, and identify and mitigate risks. SafetyQuest is a sequential series of online CME gaming modules (levels 1 - 4) that provide an innovative and immersive experience to understanding the underlying causes of patient safety issues.

This unique educational program emphasizes a problem-solving approach to preventing errors in all healthcare settings and seeks to ensure that patients are provided with care that supports the key quality aims of the Institute of Medicine. Throughout the series, learners will work to save patients from preventable harm and will errors and will gain problem solving quality improvement and safety tools to approach these issues. Case-based scenarios using multiple game modalities will be used to put these principles into practice and save future lives.

Intended Audience

This course is designed for physicians across all specialty areas.

  Release Date: November 16, 2018
  Latest Review Date: July 13, 2021
  Expiration Date: January 01, 2024
  Estimated Time to Complete: 2 Hours
  Registration Fee: FREE

Click Begin (at the top) to learn more about how to enroll in the course. 

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (2.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (2.00 hours)

1. Utilize Lean principles such as 5S and reducing waste to improve quality of care for your patients
2. Analyze quality improvement data using statistical process control
3. Apply high value care to your practice

In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation

American Medical Association (AMA)
Stanford Medicine designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Cultural and Linguistic Competency

The planners and speakers of this CME activity have been encouraged to address cultural issues relevant to their topic area for the purpose of complying with California Assembly Bill 1195. Moreover, the Stanford University School of Medicine Multicultural Health Portal contains many useful cultural and linguistic competency tools including culture guides, language access information and pertinent state and federal laws.  You are encouraged to visit the Multicultural Health Portal: http://lane.stanford.edu/portals/cultural.html

Bibliography

Carey RG, Lloyd RC. Measuring quality improvement in healthcare: a guide to statistical process control applications. Milwaukee, WI: American Society for Quality, Quality Press, 2001.

Benneyan JC. Statistical quality control methods in infection control and epidemiology. Part 2: Chart use, statistical properties, and research issues. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1998;19:265–83

Wharam JF, Ross-Degnan D, Rosenthal MB. The ACA and high-deductible insurance—strategies for sharpening a blunt instrument. N Engl J Med. 2013;369(16):1481-1484.

Reinhardt UE. The pricing of US hospital services: chaos behind a veil of secrecy. Health Aff (Millwood). 2006;25(1):57-69.

For a complete list, please view the References/Bibliography page in the Course.

Disclosures

The following planners and authors have indicated that that they have no relationships with industry to disclose relative to the content of this activity:

Laurence Katznelson, MD
Associate Dean of GME
Stanford University School of Medicine
Course Director
Author

Lisa Shieh, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Medical Director for Quality, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Course Director
Author

Nivedita Srinivas, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Infectious Disease
Stanford University School of Medicine
Author

Laura Mazer, MD
Affiliate, Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
Author

Paul Marcus, MD
Physician
Department of Hospital Based Medicine
Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center
Author

Stanford University School of Medicine has received and has used undesignated program funding from Pfizer, Inc. to facilitate the development of innovative CME activities designed to enhance physician competence and performance and to implement advanced technology. A portion of this funding supports this activity.