STANFORD MEDICINE CENTER FOR IMPROVEMENT

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Cassie Bragdon 2/10/25 Cassie Bragdon 2/10/25

Patient Experience Playbook

Lauren Fulton 2/10/25 Lauren Fulton 2/10/25

The Stanford toolkit of quality improvement resources is launched!

January 28th, 2025

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

How to Utilize AI in Improvement Efforts

Lauren Fulton 2/10/25 Lauren Fulton 2/10/25

Evaluation of hospital readmissions at Stanford Health Care

January 14th 2025

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

Creating Spaghetti Diagrams

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

How to Use a Project Charter

Lauren Fulton 1/21/25 Lauren Fulton 1/21/25

Key Concepts in Pediatric Palliative Care Integration of QoL/PPC Improves Outcomes

December 10th, 2024

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Understanding System Complexity

Lauren Fulton 1/21/25 Lauren Fulton 1/21/25

Advancing Communication Excellence at Stanford Through Relationship-Centered Care

November 19th, 2024

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Managing Change Using The A3

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

Stronger Together - Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety

October 22, 2024

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Developing Key Drivers

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

Introducing Stanford’s New Online Toolkit of Quality Improvement Resources

October 8, 2024

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Prioritizing the vital few

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

Medical Cannabis: Breaking the Grass Ceiling for Inpatient Care and Use

September 24, 2024

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Writing a problem statement

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

Care and Quality Improvement Approaches, from the Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine

September 10, 2024

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Why get certified in improvement science

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

A Multifaceted Intervention to Improve on an Inpatient Pediatric Neurosurgery Service

August 27, 2024

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Why participate in an Improvement science course?

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

The Stanford Medicine Children's Health Clinical Research Support Office (CRSO): In Pursuit of Operational Excellence in Clinical & Translational Research

July 23, 2024

Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24

Introduction to QI by Nivedita Srinivas, MD

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

QI as a Tool to Improve LGBTQ+ Healthcare Experiences and Outcomes

July 9, 2024

Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24

StrategEase Toolkit

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

A Quality Framework to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Department Care

June 25, 2024

Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24

Creating an A3

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

Data-driven longitudinal characterization of neonatal health and morbidity

June 11, 2024

Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24

Project Change Concepts Worksheet

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

Improving Efficiency on the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Service with Schedule-Based Family-Centered Round

May 28, 2024

Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24

Simple A3 Worksheet

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

Feasibility to Organizational Implementation: Heat and Moisture Exchangers for Tracheostomized Patients

May 14, 2021

Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24

QI Essentials Toolkit

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

The Relationship Centered Strategist/Physician Coach

April 30, 2024

Cassie Bragdon 8/1/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/1/24

GEMBA Pocket Guide

Lauren Fulton 12/20/24 Lauren Fulton 12/20/24

Striving for global sustainability: Where are we and where do we go from here

April 16, 2024

Cassie Bragdon 6/28/24 Cassie Bragdon 6/28/24

Cause and Effect Diagram Template

Lauren Fulton 12/19/24 Lauren Fulton 12/19/24

Discussion of a mixed methods evaluation of an electronic health record (EHR)-based incident reporting system (IRS) to promote anesthesiologist engagement in safety and quality reporting.

March 12, 2024

Cassie Bragdon 6/28/24 Cassie Bragdon 6/28/24

Improvement A3 Template

Lauren Fulton 12/19/24 Lauren Fulton 12/19/24

New Perspectives: Our Multidisciplinary Approach to Project Development

February 27, 2024

Lauren Fulton 12/19/24 Lauren Fulton 12/19/24

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Fountain of Creativity or Pandora's Box

January 23, 2024

Lauren Fulton 12/19/24 Lauren Fulton 12/19/24

Referred Pains: Methods for Improving the ED Discharge Referral Proces

January 9, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/19/24 Lauren Fulton 12/19/24

Office of Research and Health Equity

December 12, 2024

Lauren Fulton 12/19/24 Lauren Fulton 12/19/24

Stuck in the System: Improving the Care, and Care Progression, of Complex Inpatient

November 28, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/19/24 Lauren Fulton 12/19/24

Science of Team Science

November 14, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/19/24 Lauren Fulton 12/19/24

Redesigning Supportive Cancer Care

October 23, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

Improving Patient Portal Activation Rates for Pediatric Families with Spanish as a Preferred Language

October 17, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

Beyond the Report or Manuscript: How to Disseminate Your Work to New Audiences

August 22, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

Pre-Visit Experience Transformation: Improvement at Scale

September 12, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

Addressing disparities in NICU care: Review of evidence regarding disparities in the care of sick newborns and how Stanford and California are leading the country in action

August 22, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

The Evidence-Based Practice Center - Improving QI Capability

August 8, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

Understanding the PCORI HSII Grant

July 25, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

Black Box Technology for Improving Safety in the OR Setting

July 11, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

ACR The American College of Radiology Learning Network

June 27, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

Association Between Implementation of a Geriatric Trauma Clinical Pathway and Changes in Rates of Delirium in Older Adults With Traumatic Injury

June 13, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

Patient Recorded Outcomes in Cardiology - QI Insights on Implementation from a Heart Failure Randomized Control Trial

May 23, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

Promising Strategies to Support COVID-19 Vaccination of HealthCare Personnel

May 9, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

A Clinician-led Governance model for real-time Predictive Models for Patient Care

April 25, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

10,000 Ways That Don't Work. Resilience in a Healthcare Journey

March 28, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/18/24 Lauren Fulton 12/18/24

Who Are the Numbers

March 14, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/17/24 Lauren Fulton 12/17/24

Integrating Tobacco Treatment into Cancer Care at Stanford Health Care: A Quality Improvement Initiative

February 28, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/17/24 Lauren Fulton 12/17/24

Building Fair, Useful Reliable Models at Stanford Healthcare

February 14, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/17/24 Lauren Fulton 12/17/24

The Learning Health System (LHS) Toolkit: A toolkit for knowledge translation and implementation toward more responsive systems of care

Lauren Fulton 12/17/24 Lauren Fulton 12/17/24

Centering DEI in our Improvement Work to Advance Health Equity: Moving Toward Justice

January 10, 2023

Lauren Fulton 12/15/24 Lauren Fulton 12/15/24

Improving Transitions of Care in Dermatology: A Collaborative Effort

December 6, 2022

Lauren Fulton 12/15/24 Lauren Fulton 12/15/24

Tips for Publishing and Presenting

November 15, 2022

Lauren Fulton 12/15/24 Lauren Fulton 12/15/24

Improvement Bedrock: Foundations Needed For True Improvement Capability

November 1, 2022

Cassie Bragdon 12/12/24 Cassie Bragdon 12/12/24

Flowchart to Determine Oversight of QI Projects

Cassie Bragdon 12/12/24 Cassie Bragdon 12/12/24

Guidelines for Oversight of QI Projects

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

Improvement Journey: From QI to a Learning Health System.

September 28, 2022

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

Practical Considerations of Implementing Digital Health Technologies

October 25, 2022

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

Improving Transitions of Care in Dermatology - a Collaborative effort

December 6, 2022

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

Lessons from the Long Fix: Applications of AI in Healthcare

January 26, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

Practical real-life examples of applying implementation science outcomes to quality improvement endeavors

January 12, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

Leveraging quality improvement, design thinking, and simulation when studying and implementing health AI technologies

February 10, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

The Path Toward Becoming a Learning Health System at Stanford Children's Health

March 10, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

The Lightning Report Method – Rapid Stakeholder Feedback

April 13, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

The Social and Technical Domains in Quality and Safety

May 18, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

Target Based Care: An Intervention to Reduce Variation in Postoperative Length of Stay

June 2, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

Patient Safety's Future through the Lens of an Organizational Scientist

June 22, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/25/24 Lauren Fulton 11/25/24

The Approaches to Mixed Methods Evaluations

July 13, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/22/24 Lauren Fulton 11/22/24

Is it time to reimagine the US Healthcare Quality System?

July 27, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/22/24 Lauren Fulton 11/22/24

Machine learning, optimization, and simulation to improve the quality and reduce the cost of care

August 3, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/22/24 Lauren Fulton 11/22/24

Packard Clinical Pathways Program- A story of program building and lessons learned

August 10, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/22/24 Lauren Fulton 11/22/24

The Power of Learning Networks: The Story of Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology Collaborative (PAC3)

September 14, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/20/24 Lauren Fulton 11/20/24

Enhancing Communication in the Operating Room by Labeling Surgical Caps with Names

September 29, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/20/24 Lauren Fulton 11/20/24

Stanford Medicine Community of Improvement Professionals (SCIP)

October 5, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/20/24 Lauren Fulton 11/20/24

The Shingo Model: Building a sustainable culture of organizational excellence

October 27, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/20/24 Lauren Fulton 11/20/24

Agile, Improvement, Empowerment

November 9, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/20/24 Lauren Fulton 11/20/24

Implementation Science: Some Basics and Cutting-Edge Advances

December 14, 2021

Lauren Fulton 11/11/24 Lauren Fulton 11/11/24

Discussion of a Work in Process: Evaluation of the Senior Care Home Based Program

October 27, 2020

Lauren Fulton 11/11/24 Lauren Fulton 11/11/24

Building AI-Enabled Systems for Patient Care at Stanford

September 28, 2020

Lauren Fulton 9/3/24 Lauren Fulton 9/3/24

Introduction to the Community Outreach Pillar of SCIP

Lauren Fulton 9/3/24 Lauren Fulton 9/3/24

Introduction to Publishing, Presenting, and Posting Improvement Work

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

Equity Considerations

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

Use of a Data Collection Plan

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

How to Integrate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Improvement Work

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

E-Learning and Online Presentation Tips

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

How to Build Improvement Capability

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

Posting to Improvement Blogs

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

How to Leverage Online Collaboration Tools

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

Everyday Improvement Idea Video

Lauren Fulton 8/30/24 Lauren Fulton 8/30/24

PQMS Intro Video

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Understanding Data Variation

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Hypothesis Testing

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Building and Using Run Charts

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

SMART Goals and Measures

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Calculating Project Impact

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Presenting Improvement projects

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Building an Improvement Project Team

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Sustaining the Gains

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Making Changes more reliable

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

Testing Changes

Lauren Fulton 8/29/24 Lauren Fulton 8/29/24

SMCI ACIS introduction video

Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24

The effectiveness of continuous quality improvement for developing professional practice and improving health care outcomes: a systematic review

Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24

Studying complexity in health services research: desperately seeking an overdue paradigm shift

Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24

“There is nothing so practical as a good theory”: a pragmatic guide for selecting theoretical approaches for implementation projects

Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24

Making Sense of Implementation Theories, Models, and Frameworks

Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24

An introduction to implementation science for the non-specialist

Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24

Embedded Health Service Development and Research: Why and How to do it (a ten-stage guide)

Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/12/24

Building Capacity for Dissemination and Implementation Research: One University’s Experience

Cassie Bragdon 8/9/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/9/24

Collaborative networks for both improvement and research

Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24

Gantt Chart Template

Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24

SMART Goal Worksheet

Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24

PICO Question Worksheet

Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24

Aim Statement

Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24

Balanced Score Card

Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24

Prioritization Matrix

Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24

ARCC Handout/Scenarios

Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24

ARCC Overview Sheet

Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/7/24

Qualitative Methods in Implementation Science

Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24

What is a Team Charter

Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24

Project Charter

Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24

PDSA Worksheet

Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24

QI Project Management

Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24

Equity and Performance Toolkit

Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24

Recommendations for Addressing Structural Racism in IS

Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24

Equity Guiding Questions

Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/6/24

Racism: Science and Tools for Public Health Professional

Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24

Tiered Huddles

Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24

Determining Levels of Evidence

Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24

Histogram and Capability Analysis

Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/5/24

Excel Run Chart Builder

Cassie Bragdon 8/1/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/1/24

Health Equity Toolkit

Cassie Bragdon 8/1/24 Cassie Bragdon 8/1/24

DMS Assessment

Lauren Fulton 4/12/24 Lauren Fulton 4/12/24

Intro to Improvement Methods

Lauren Fulton 6/19/19 Lauren Fulton 6/19/19

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Resource network of key contacts, initiatives, and resources within Stanford and beyond who can help you on your QI journey.

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