Quality Improvement Projects
All physicians share responsibility for promoting patient safety and quality improvement in health care. During training, programs must prepare residents to provide the highest level of clinical care with a distinct focus on patient safety, patient-centered care, and humanity of all.
Residents must demonstrate the ability to analyze the care they provide and play an active role in system improvement processes. It is necessary for residents and faculty members to work together within healthcare teams to achieve organizational patient safety goals.
- adapted from the ACGME Common Program Requirements
Our residency training program provides various opportunities for residents to play an active role in patient safety and quality improvement endeavors.
Systems-based participation includes:
- Incident reporting for adverse events and near misses
- Participation in Root Cause Analysis
- Simulation training within the patient care environment (ex. ER Trauma Resuscitation Room or Labor & Delivery Suite)
- Participation in hospital committees, including: Pharmacy & Therapeutics, Infection Control, Hospital Throughput, CAUTI Task Force, OR Committee, etc.
Department-based participation includes:
- recurring education about basic quality improvement processes
- review of data/metrics, such as: 30 day readmission rates, blood transfusions, insufficient pap smear rates in clinic, and the overall C-section rate of our service
- attendance at monthly Morbidity and Mortality conferences
- participation in at least one quality improvement project with a team of residents and a faculty mentor
The Department of OBGYN has been an active participant in the Annual QI/PS Forum for the LSU Health Sciences Center since its inception in 2013.
Current projects that are ongoing in the department include:
- Implementation of ERAS protocols for cesarean delivery
- Implementation of a Manual Uterine Aspiration Protocol for Miscarriage Management in the ED
- Optimizing a Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy
- Placenta Accreta Spectrum: A Needs Assessment for a Center of Excellence
- Integration of Mental Health Services for Obstetrics in an Urban Academic Medical Center
