Joseph Choi, MD, PhD, MHA (he/him/his)
Chief of Orthopedic Surgery
Guthrie Clinic
Sayre , Pennsylvania, United States
Lisa LaRock, RN,BSN,MSL,PHRN, CCRN-K
Senior Director, Trauma Services
The Guthrie Clinic
Chemung, New York, United States
Anne Rizzo, MD
System Surgical Chair
The Guthrie Clinic
Sayre, Pennsylvania, United States
Moving the needle from red to green on a TQIP report takes time. Health care providers often struggle with waiting to see results. Our instinct is to initiate more changes when we don’t have immediate improvement. This presentation will share one trauma center’s journey with a multidisciplinary clinical quality project of the isolated hip fracture and elderly blunt multisystem cohorts which began with noted quality changes to state and local data while our TQIP results were still within acceptable values. We will show how we monitored multiple data sources to anticipate a future change in our TQIP data and avoid reacting when we saw a dismal TQIP trend during the quality project. Being able to anticipate TQIP changes helped us decrease the unbearable anxiety waiting for results and allowed the team to be more tolerant to avoid the innate need to make more changes too early and patiently wait to see our TQIP values improve.
Speaker: Anne Rizzo, MD – The Guthrie Clinic
Speaker: Lisa LaRock, RN,BSN,MSL,PHRN, CCRN-K – The Guthrie Clinic
Speaker: Joseph Choi, MD, PhD, MHA (he/him/his) – Guthrie Clinic
Speaker: Anne Rizzo, MD – The Guthrie Clinic