Quality Improvement Committee
Developing leaders and professionals
Committee Chair: Dr. Brenda Van Fossen
Members: Dr. Sarah Ostler, Ron Hall (Patient Advisor), Yasmeen Sayeed, Dr. Vivian Lee, Dr. Donna Sue, Dr. Kristel Lobo-Prabhu, Dr. Kyle Hunt
Committee Manager: Maryam El Tawil
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
What is 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
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!
- FAST Pathway
Lead: Dr. Timothy Kostamo, Jennifer Watters, and Brittany Spence
Aim: Same Day Discharge for Total Joint Arthroplasty-establish a consistent and successful process within the multidisciplinary team across the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative periods. - Write it Right!
Lead: Dr. Sarah Ostler
Aim: Creating, complete, concise and clear physician admission and discharge summaries. - Awareness campaign on mental health and destigmatizing mental illness
Lead: Dr. Iram Yunus, Dr. Kyle Hunt
Aim: to organize an awareness campaign featuring posters and other social media materials with content on mental health and destigmatizing mental illness in healthcare providers. - Substance Use Resources and Services in Burnaby: Spreading the Knowledge
Lead: Dr. Lingsa Jia
Aim: Refine the knowledge translation tool (www.BRSU.ca) to improve substance use knowledge for BH staff and patients. - Optimizing Postoperative Analgesia for Laparotomy Patients
Lead: Dr. Reza Faraji
Aim: use rectus sheath nerve blocks and catheters in patients undergoing laparotomy surgery who are anticoagulated or septic, as an effective modality of pain control.
- The Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer
Lead: Dr. Greg Monkewich - 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) - Managing Delirium
Lead: Dr. Zareena Abidin
Aim: Reduce the use of psychotropic medication by 50% from baseline for managing delirium and BPSD and optimizing and make available the use of non-pharmacological interventions by June 2021 - Examining the impact of team based care with Physicians and Nurse Practitioners on Orthopedic Surgical patients
Lead: Pamela Colley (NP) - 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 - Decreasing length of stay after complex shoulder operation by inserting nerve sheath catheters
Lead: Dr. Reza Farji and Dr. Mike Chuang - 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
Poster | Charter | Driver Diagram
PQI Fundamentals
Physician Quality Improvement offers a PQI Fundamentals workshop to develop quality improvement (QI) ideas for improving patient care:
Develop introductory skills on how to test and measure change,
understand systems, build a team, and keep your project gains
In-class support for developing your own QI project idea
Sessional funding for eligible physicians
*Pre-requisite for PQI Certificate
For more information: https://learninghub.phsa.ca/Courses/19460/pqi-fundamentals
understand systems, build a team, and keep your project gains
For more information: https://learninghub.phsa.ca/Courses/19460/pqi-fundamentals