Each year, Barnes-Jewish Hospital sponsors a Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Symposium. This year’s theme was “The Road to Highly Reliable Care is Paved with Thoughtful Processes and Purposeful Performance.” Several of our hospitalists, and our research coordinator, Maya Fiore, participated in the symposium, with Maya, Stephanie Conner, MD, Han Li, MD, and Safa Farrag, MD, presenting their abstracts as a part of the abstract competition and viewing session.
Maya and Dr. Conner have been working on a POCUS Throughput project. The goal of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of a POCUS-guided TTE triage protocol that increases the proportion of TTEs completed within 24 hours.
Dr. Li presented an abstract titled, “Decreasing Time to Administration of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock.” The goal of this project is to decrease time to antibiotic administration on inpatient floors to less than 60 minutes in patients with concern for severe sepsis and septic shock.
Dr. Farrag has been working with DHM research coordinator Airest Wilson on an abstract involving the implementation of warm handoffs between Washington University Barnes Jewish extended care providers.