2020
A Multimodal Intervention to Improve the Quality and Safety of Interhospital Care Transitions for Nontraumatic Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Sather J, Littauer R, Finn E, Matouk C, Sheth K, Parwani V, Pham L, Ulrich A, Rothenberg C, Venkatesh AK. A Multimodal Intervention to Improve the Quality and Safety of Interhospital Care Transitions for Nontraumatic Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. The Joint Commission Journal On Quality And Patient Safety 2020, 47: 99-106. PMID: 33358659, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjq.2020.10.003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInterhospital transferQuality improvement interventionsIntracerebral hemorrhageMultimodal interventionImprovement interventionsClinical practice guideline disseminationEmergency department timeNeurocritical care cliniciansMultimodal quality improvement interventionNontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhageTimeliness of careED boarding timeRegionalization of careChi-square testIHT processED lengthPostintervention outcomesCare cliniciansSubarachnoid hemorrhageCare transitionsAdmission ordersDepartment timeGuideline disseminationOutcome measuresStudy population
2017
Reducing Unnecessary Blood Chemistry Testing in the Emergency Department: Implementation of Choosing Wisely
Venkatesh AK, Hajdasz D, Rothenberg C, Dashevsky M, Parwani V, Sevilla M, Shapiro M, Schwartz I. Reducing Unnecessary Blood Chemistry Testing in the Emergency Department: Implementation of Choosing Wisely. American Journal Of Medical Quality 2017, 33: 81-85. PMID: 28693330, DOI: 10.1177/1062860617691842.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBlood chemistry testingMultimodal interventionChemistry testingFormal laboratory testingMultimodal quality improvement interventionQuality improvement interventionsChemistry testsCare laboratory testingEmergency department throughputPre-post analysisAutoregressive integrated moving-average modelsED visitsPrimary outcomeUrban EDEmergency departmentProvider educationLaboratory testingImprovement interventionsVisitsInterventionDaily numberEDTesting