Quality Improvement Committee
Developing leaders and professionals
Committee Chair: Dr. Melissa Allan
Members: Dr. Sarah Ostler, Dr. Christopher Bozek, Ron Hall (Patient Advisor), Ryan Mackay, Yasmeen Sayeed, Dr. Vivian Lee, Dr. Donna Sue, Dr. Kristel Lobo-Prabhu, Dr. Kyle Hunt
Committee Manager: Janice Eng
Welcome to the Quality Improvement Committee Information Hub!
Vision: To promote the awareness, development, implementation and advancement of quality improvement initiatives by the Burnaby Hospital Medical Staff.
Mission: To promote the culture of Quality Improvement amongst physicians and other medical staff to work together and with other clinical and ancillary staff as well as site and regional personnel, to explore best care, to exceed targets and standards, to boldly make changes to better patient outcomes
Here you will find a variety of resources, opportunities to generate your ideas, and project support.
QI Café
A forum to engage and empower medical staff and hospital employees to make improvements in their daily work of providing healthcare.
The QI Café is divided into 2 parts:
1) dedicate time to reviewing topics from the IHI QI Basics
2) provide an opportunity for participants to discuss project ideas.
Every 4th Friday |7am-9am - More Event Details
QI Projects
We are currently accepting projects. Apply Now!
- Managing Delirium
Lead: Dr. Zareena Abidin
Aim: Reduce the use of psychotropic medication by 50% from baseline for managing delirium and BPSD and optimising and make available the use of non-pharmacological interventions by June 2021 - Access and Flow
Lead: Dr. Melissa Allan - Examining the impact of team based care with Physicians and Nurse Practitioners on Orthopedic Surgical patients
Lead: Pamela Colley (NP) - Decreasing length of stay after complex shoulder operation by inserting nerve sheath catheters
Lead: Dr. Reza Farji and Dr. Mike Chuang - The Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer
Lead: Dr. Greg Monkewich - What Drugs are you on?
Lead: Dr. Sarah Ostler
Aim: By Nov 23, 2021 100% of the BH hospitalist discharge summaries will have document the changes made to the patients medication during their hospital stay
- CAP - It's as easy as 1,3,5!
Lead: Dr. Sarah Ostler
Aim 1: Reduce average duration of IV antibiotics treatment for eligible patient diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) from 7 days to 3 days by March 2019
Aim 2: Decrease average length of stay (ALOS) of eligible patients diagnosed with CAP by 20% by March 2019
Poster | Charter | Driver Diagram - What the Echo! Reducing inpatient Echocardiograms at BH
Lead: Dr. Sarah Ostler
Aim: By Dec 15th 2019, the number of patients receiving inpatient echocardiogram at BH will decrease by 15%
Poster | Charter | Driver Diagram - Finding Delirium in High Risk ED Admissions
Lead: Dr. Donna Sue
Aim: Increase the identification of pre-admission delirium by 25% in patients admitted from the ED by March 31, 2020
Poster - “What Drugs are you on?” – Medication Reconciliation Project
Lead: Dr. Sarah Ostler
Aim: By June 30, 2021, 90% of the BH Hospitalist discharge summaries will document the changes made to the patients' medications during their hospital stay
Poster | Charter | Driver Diagram
PQI Fundamentals
understand systems, build a team, and keep your project gains
For more information: https://learninghub.phsa.ca/Courses/19460/pqi-fundamentals