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| Pamela J SchoettkerSummaryAffiliation: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Quality improvement project to reduce perioperative opioid oversedation events in a paediatric hospitalDeborah Vermaire
Division of Pain Management, Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229 3039, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 20:895-902. 2011..Narcotics are responsible for many adverse drug events in children and there has been an increase in opioid oversedation events in hospitalised patients...
Implementing an evidence-based acute gastroenteritis guideline at a children's hospitalPaul H Perlstein
Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Department of Neonatology, Children's Hospital Medical Center (CHMC, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 28:20-30. 2002..DISCUSSION: Following implementation, fewer patients with AGE were seen in the ED and fewer were admitted to the hospital for care. Hospital stays were shorter, and children were more likely to resume their diets before discharge...- Republished: developing capable quality improvement leadersGeraldine M Kaminski
Quality Improvement Systems, James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 5040, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
Postgrad Med J 89:78-86. 2013..Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center created the Intermediate Improvement Science Series (I(2)S(2)) training course to develop organisational leaders to do improvement, lead improvement and get results on specific projects... - Improving access to pediatric subspecialty care: initial failures and lessons learnedMaria T Britto
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
Qual Manag Health Care 17:320-9. 2008..We then sought to describe the reasons for the initial failure of these strategies... 
Improving influenza immunisation for high-risk children and adolescentsMaria T Britto
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229 3039, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 16:363-8. 2007..To improve influenza vaccination rates for high-risk children and adolescents...- Partnerships for Quality project: closing the gap in care of children with ADHDCarole Lannon
Center for Health Care Quality, Division of Health Policy and Clinial Effectiveness, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:66-74. 2007.... - Assisting primary care practices in using office systems to promote early childhood developmentPeter A Margolis
Center for Health Care Quality, Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45299, USA
Ambul Pediatr 8:383-7. 2008..The aim of this study was to use family-centered measures to estimate the effect of a collaborative quality improvement program designed to help practices implement systems to promote early childhood development services... - Reducing surgical site infections at a pediatric academic medical centerFrederick C Ryckman
Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 35:192-8. 2009..Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) used reliability science to dramatically reduce the rate of surgical site infections... - Quality improvement, clinical research, and quality improvement research--opportunities for integrationPeter Margolis
Center for Health Care Quality, Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Mail Location 7014, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
Pediatr Clin North Am 56:831-41. 2009.... - Transforming safety and effectiveness in pediatric hospital care locally and nationallyKeith E Mandel
Physician Hospital Organization, Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Mail Location 7023, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
Pediatr Clin North Am 56:905-18. 2009..Improving national system-level measures requires each hospital to pursue its own transformation journey while collaborating with hospitals and other organizations... - Redesigning intensive care unit flow using variability management to improve access and safetyFrederick C Ryckman
Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 35:535-43. 2009..Beginning in 2006, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center implemented a series of interventions to "smooth" patient flow through the system... - Use of quality-improvement methods to improve timeliness of analgesic deliverySrikant B Iyer
Division of Emergency Medicine, James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, ML 7014, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
Pediatrics 127:e219-25. 2011..We used improvement science and quality-improvement methods to reduce delays associated with opioid delivery for children presenting to the emergency department with clinically apparent extremity fractures... - A hospital-wide quality-improvement collaborative to reduce catheter-associated bloodstream infectionsDerek S Wheeler
Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229 3039, USA
Pediatrics 128:e995-e1004; quiz e1004-7. 2011..Quality-improvement collaboratives (QICs) are frequently used to improve health care quality. Our PICU was previously involved in a successful national QIC to reduce the incidence of CA BSI in critically ill children... - Financial impact of failing to prevent surgical site infectionsKaren W Sparling
The Divisions of Pediatric and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
Qual Manag Health Care 16:219-25. 2007..Despite advances in infection-control practices, surgical site infections (SSIs) remain a substantial cause of morbidity, mortality, and increased costs among hospitalized patients... - A randomized controlled trial to change antibiotic prescribing patterns in a communityEmanuel O Doyne
Center for Health Care Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, OH 45229, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:577-83. 2004..Excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics has been identified as a leading cause of the emergence of multiply resistant strains of pneumococci... - Putting evidence-based clinical practice guidelines into practice: an academic pediatric center's experienceWendy E Gerhardt
Center for Professional Excellence, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:226-35. 2007..All guideline-based order sets include an automatic order for use of the associated clinical pathway. It is important to create and maintain an evidence-based environment in an academic medical center... - Family-centered bedside rounds: a new approach to patient care and teachingStephen E Muething
Clinical Services, Department of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
Pediatrics 119:829-32. 2007..Despite initial concerns of staff members, family-centered rounds has been widely accepted and spread throughout the institution. Here we report our experiences as a potential model to improve family-centered care and teaching... - Reliability science and patient safetyJoseph W Luria
Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
Pediatr Clin North Am 53:1121-33. 2006..They share a preoccupation with failure, reluctance to simplify interpretations, sensitivity to operations, commitment to resilience, and underspecification of structures... - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: transforming care for children and familiesMaria T Britto
Chronic Care Programs, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:541-8. 2006..Family members ensure that children's and parents' voices are heard... - Decreasing overuse of therapies in the treatment of bronchiolitis by incorporating evidence at the point of careStephen Muething
Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229 3039, USA
J Pediatr 144:703-10. 2004..The primary outcome of interest was use of bronchodilator therapy. Secondary outcomes included use of guideline order sets, resource utilization, length of stay, and readmission... - Individualized daily schedules for hospitalized adolescents with cystic fibrosisJeanne Weiland
Division of Patient Services, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229 3039, USA
J Pediatr Health Care 17:284-9. 2003..This article describes the effects of an individualized patient schedule on satisfaction and clinical outcomes for patients with cystic fibrosis admitted to an adolescent unit... - Empowering respiratory therapists to take a more active role in delivering quality care for infants with bronchiolitisEdward Conway
Department of Respiratory Care, Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
Respir Care 49:589-99. 2004.... - Measuring adverse events and levels of harm in pediatric inpatients with the global trigger toolEric S Kirkendall
FAAP, Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, Medical Director of Clinical Decision Support, Information Services, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 9009, Cincinnati, OH 45229
Pediatrics 130:e1206-14. 2012.... - Utilizing improvement science methods to improve physician compliance with proper hand hygieneChristine M White
Division of Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
Pediatrics 129:e1042-50. 2012..We used improvement methods and reliability science to increase compliance with proper hand hygiene to >95% by inpatient general pediatric teams... - Reduction in hypoglycemic events in critically ill patients on continuous insulin following implementation of a treatment guidelineRanjit S Chima
Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
Qual Manag Health Care 21:20-8. 2012..However, the incidence of hypoglycemia while attempting glycemic control using an insulin infusion may be as high as 25% and hypoglycemia may be an independent risk factor for mortality in critically ill children... - Relationship between early primary care and emergency department use in early infancy by the medicaid populationUma R Kotagal
Center for Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:710-6. 2002..To examine the relationship between the use and type of primary care and visits to the emergency department (ED) in early infancy by healthy infants who are Medicaid recipients... - Challenges to performance-based assessment for community physiciansMelodie Blacklidge
Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, OH, USA
J Healthc Qual 27:20-7. 2005..Response was positive. This process may help keep community physicians engaged as vital members of the hospital staff... - Quality improvement initiative to reduce serious safety events and improve patient safety cultureStephen E Muething
Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229 USA
Pediatrics 130:e423-31. 2012..We conducted a quality improvement initiative to implement cultural and system changes with the goal of reducing serious safety events (SSEs) by 80% within 4 years at our large, urban pediatric hospital... - The human milk project: a quality improvement initiative to increase human milk consumption in very low birth weight infantsLaura Ward
Division of Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Breastfeed Med 7:234-40. 2012..We conducted a multidisciplinary quality improvement effort aimed at providing at least 500 mL of human milk/kg in the first 14 days of life to very low birth weight (VLBW) (< 1,500 g) infants in the neonatal intensive care unit... - Impact of a bronchiolitis guideline: a multisite demonstration projectUma R Kotagal
Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Program, Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
Chest 121:1789-97. 2002..The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of a multisite implementation of an evidence-based clinical practice guideline for bronchiolitis... - The impact of legislation and secular trends on newborn length of stay for Medicaid infants in OhioUma R Kotagal
Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
J Pediatr 141:392-7. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: LOS and "short stay" returned to near-1991 levels for Medicaid newborns in Ohio after legislative activity... - Quality improvement project to reduce infiltration and extravasation events in a pediatric hospitalBarbara F Tofani
Perioperative Services, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
J Pediatr Nurs 27:682-9. 2012..The team is currently examining other strategies to reduce PIV injuries... - Developing capable quality improvement leadersGeraldine M Kaminski
Quality Improvement Systems, James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 21:903-11. 2012..Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center created the Intermediate Improvement Science Series (I(2)S(2)) training course to develop organisational leaders to do improvement, lead improvement and get results on specific projects... - Utilising improvement science methods to optimise medication reconciliationChristine M White
Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, OH 45229 3039, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 20:372-80. 2011..Hospitals continue to struggle to implement successful programmes that meet these objectives... - Differential effect of state legislation regarding hospitalization for healthy newborns in a single geographic regionUma R Kotagal
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229-3039, USA
Am J Public Health 93:575-7. 2003