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Perioperative Quality Improvement

  • 1st Edition - July 30, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Carol J. Peden, Lee A. Fleisher, Michael Englesbe
  • Language: English

Quality improvement (QI) principles are increasingly important in every area of today’s healthcare, encompassing efforts to make healthcare delivery safer, more effective, pa… Read more

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Quality improvement (QI) principles are increasingly important in every area of today’s healthcare, encompassing efforts to make healthcare delivery safer, more effective, patient-centered, timely, equitable, and efficient. Perioperative Quality Improvement provides up-to-date, easy-to-read guidance for perioperative clinicians on this critical topic. Each chapter covers a pertinent area of QI in the perioperative setting, focusing on both concepts and implementation. Written and edited by key international opinion leaders in the field, this text is a relevant, concise resource for anesthesiologists, surgeons, nurse anesthetists, and hospitalists—anyone involved in perioperative medicine regardless of specialty area.

Key features

  • Explains concepts
  • related to understanding the tools and techniques used in improving the quality of care, establishing a culture of quality, prioritizing areas of improvement, collecting and analyzing data, communicating, motivating people to change, and performing ongoing evaluations.

  • Covers key topics
  • such as patient-centered care, equity, shared decision making, process mapping, and sustainability.

  • Addresses the critical areas of structure, process and outcome with a focus on perioperative care and relevant case studies.
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase.
  • Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Readership

anesthesiologists, surgeons, nurse anesthetists, hospitalists

Table of contents

SECTION 1 Background

1 What Is Quality in Medicine and Why Do We Need to Work on It?

2 Where Does Safety Fit In?

3 What Is Perioperative Medicine and Why Do We Need It?

4 The Case for Improvement in Perioperative Medicine

5 The Promise and Pitfalls of Big Data Studies in Perioperative Medicine

6 Clinical Trials in Perioperative Medicine

7 Large-Scale Audits: Using Citizen Science to Gather High-Quality “Big Data”

8 Education in Perioperative Medicine

9 System Thinking in Perioperative Medicine

10 Patient-Centered Care in Perioperative Outcomes

11 Shared Decision Making

12 Clinical Outcomes and Measures in Perioperative Care

13 Equity and Perioperative Care

14 Qualitative Research in Perioperative Medicine

15 Publication in Perioperative Medicine

16 The SQUIRE 2.0 (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence)Guidelines: A Framework for Designing and Reporting Quality Improvement Studies, Application in Perioperative Care

17 Leveraging the Perioperative Period to Address Population Health

18 Building for Sustainability

19 Risk Management and Perioperative Quality

20 Using Innovative Payment Models to Drive Improvement in Perioperative Care
SECTION 2 Improvement Science Tools for Change

21 What is Program Theory and Why Is It Important to Perioperative Quality Improvement?

22 An Overview of Common Improvement Methodologies and Their Background

23 The Model for Improvement: A Tool to Drive Perioperative Improvement

24 Lean in Health Care

25 Other Performance Improvement Tools: From Compliance to Excellence

26 Building a Measurement System That Works: Milestones, Measure Development, and Sampling

27 Analyzing Variation With Run Charts

28 Statistical Process Control Charts for Clinical Users

29 Process Mapping

30 Driver Diagrams

31 Care Bundles for Perioperative Improvement

32 Human Factors in Perioperative Care: General Principles

33 Human Factors and Perioperative Improvement: Handover Checklists and Protocols for Safe and Reliable Care Transitions

34 Checklists for Safer Perioperative Care

35 Social Aspects of Change in Perioperative Care and the Importance of Context

36 Stakeholder Engagement

37 Techniques for Creating Urgency

38 Leadership in Perioperative Quality

39 Establishing and Running Quality Collaboratives: The Michigan Experience

40 Excellent Perioperative Patient Experience

41 An International Perspective on Training and Setting Standards in Perioperative Medicine
SECTION 3 Putting It All Together—Clinical Quality Improvement Examples

42 Implementation of Enhanced Recovery for Colorectal Surgery: A Real-World Example of Quality Improvement

43 Quality Improvement Through the Lens of the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group

44 The Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MUSIC) Reducing Operative Complications From Kidney Stones (ROCKS) Quality Initiative

45 Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols—Implementation Across a US Health System: System-Level Principles

46 Pain Care Pathways and Patient Reported Outcomes

47 Health Services Research

48 The Perioperative Brain Health Initiative

49 Quality Improvement in Emergency Surgery: Learning From Two Large-Scale Programs to Reduce Mortality After Emergency Laparotomy

50 Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme

51 Using Real-World Data for Improvement—The Seattle Children’s Example

52 Optimizing Value in Perioperative Medicine and the High Value Practice Academic Alliance: A Case-Based Study on Preoperative Assessment

53 Perioperative Medicine for Older People: Translating a Geriatrician-Led Perioperative Care Model From an Inner London Teaching Hospital to a District General Hospital

54 Putting It All Together: Clinical Quality Improvement Examples: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Improving Surgical Care and Recovery

55 Cardiovascular Disease: Preoperative Testing and Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery

56 Orthopedics and Regional Anesthesia: An Outpatient Total Shoulder Replacement Pathway

57 A Case Study: National Emergency Laparotomy Audit

58 Provider Resilience and Caring for the Carer

59 Nursing and Perioperative Quality Improvement

60 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and Perioperative Medicine

61 Environmental Sustainability and Perioperative Quality Improvement

62 Gaining and Keeping C-Suite Support for Perioperative Quality Improvement Initiatives
Index

Review quotes

"This book provides an encyclopedic approach to all aspects of perioperative safety, efficiency, quality, and quality improvement. It covers a wealth of topics, many of which are relevant to other aspects of surgical practice. Purchase of the paper copy includes access to an accompanying ebook, which is highly portable and fully searchable." ©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Carol Scott-Conner, MD, PhD, MBA (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics)

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 14, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

CP

Carol J. Peden

Carol J. Peden is an Adjunct Profesor in Anesthesiology at both the Keck School of Medicine of USC in Los Angeles, California and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement, University of Bath in Bath, Somerset, UK.

LF

Lee A. Fleisher

Affiliations and expertise
Robert Dunning Drips Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

ME

Michael Englesbe

Michael Engelsbe is the Cyrenus G. Darling Sr., MD and Cyrenus G. Darling Jr., MD Professor of Surgery within the Section of Transplantation Surgery at Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Cyrenus G. Darling Sr. & Cyrenus G. Darling Jr. Professor of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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