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Residents Improving Quality and Safety of Patient Care
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Handoffs and Paging as Firs...
Members of the Twin Cities Resident Council have chosen two topics for their first qulaity improvement initiatives: handoffs and paging. These topics were selected at the October meeting of the Council, after creating a long list of possible projects. The two issues affect residents who rotate to various hospitals in the Twin Cities, as the processes are different at...
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Next Meeting: May 9, 2012
The next meeting of the Twin Cities Resident Council will be held on May 9, 2012 at The University Room of the University Park Plaza Building, 2829 University Avenue SE, 55414. The meeting will be at 7PM; dinner will be served. Please RSVP to Troy Taubenheim at taube019@umn.edu. Five residents have volunteered to be a leadership team for the Residents Council. They are...
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Minutes for April 11, 2012
Introductions were made. Carl Dean from Internal Medicine at HCMC joined the Committee. Pagers The pager document (“Effective and Efficient Use of Pagers”) was distributed. HCMC performed an abbreviated roll out to their GMEC and Residency Leadership group. Feedback from the groups was that the HIPAA information could be abbreviated to more ambiguous...
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The Twin Cities Resident Council is an organization of resident physicians in the Minneapolis St Paul metropolis, whose aim is to improve the quality and safety of patient care. The council is composed of residents from all teaching hospitals in the Twin Cities including the University of Minnesota, Hennepin County Medical Center, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, HealthPartners Regions Hospital and the Veterans Administration. The concept of a Resident Council has the backing of the Metro Minnesota Council on Graduate Medical Education and the University of Minnesota Medical School.
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References relating to clinical quality improvement and resident physicians:
2008 Involving Residents Philibert (191)April 2011 Viewpoint (125)
AAMC Best Practice FAQ 2011 (131)
Academy of Medicine Vol 68.11 (139)
Academic Medicine Vol 84.12 (211)
AJMQ 10 Years after IOM Report (218)
Research:
The AMA’s “Art and Science of Handoffs:
http://media01.commpartners.com/AMA/5-Webinars_June2011/Handoffs_0611/index.html
AMA’s Site on Handoffs:
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/resident-fellow-section/rfs-resources/patient-handoffs.page
AHRQ Patient Safety Network website about Handoffs and Signouts, which has a few resources: http://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer.aspx?primerID=9
ACGME requirements – here’s what I found on the ACGME website (this came from the internal medicine program requirements but is a common program requirement):
http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/RRC_140/140_EIP_PR205.pdf
ACGME FAQ’s:
http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/dutyHours/dh-faqs2011.pdf
ACP website:
Transitions of care: what we know and what we don’t know
Journal review for the Society of Hospitalist Medicine re: sign-outs and evidence-ranked suggestions for sign-outs: ”Hospitalist Handoffs: A systematic review and task force recommendation”
Adequacy of of information transferred at resident signouts: a prospective survey
Article reviews multi-specialty hospital using sign-outs across a university system and some suggestions:
Organizing the transfer of patient care information: the development of a computerized resident signout system
JCAHO in 2005 – looks at recommended minimums for care sign-outs:
A model for building a standardized hand-off protocol
This outlines suggestions for improved sign-outs:
Lost in Translation: Challenges and opportunities in Physician to Physican communication during patient handoffs
Members
All resident physicians and fellows interested in improving patient care across Twin Cities teaching hospitals and academic medical centers are welcome. Five residents have volunteered to be a leadership team for the Residents Council. They are Drs. Josh Becker, Lindsay Byrnes, Sarah Lee, Nate Scott and Ruth Thomson.
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