Patient safety often goes hand-in-hand with quality improvement. As part of Patient Safety Awareness Week, IHQI is highlighting the QI projects of our current Improvement Scholars:
Implementation of Antibiotic Time-outs at Hillsborough Hospital
UNC Hospitals-Hillsborough Campus
Lead: Zach Willis, MD, MPH
Malnutrition in Hospitalized Family Medicine Patients
UNC Hospitals
Lead: Amir Barzin, DO, MS
Reducing Fall-Related Fractures in Older Adults
UNC Hospitals-Hillsborough Campus
Lead: Meredith Gilliam, MD, MPH
Using the EMR for Precision Prescribing and Reducing Unused Opioid Tablets in Postpartum Women
UNC Women’s Hospitals
Lead: Christine McKenzie, MD
Reducing Avoidable Gastrointestinal Surgery Readmissions
UNC Medical Center
Leads: Stephanie Lumpkin, MD & Nicole Chaumont, MD
Extending Early Sepsis Recognition and Intervention to the Critical Care and Pre-Hospital Environment
UNC-Rex Hospital
Leads: Dameion Rutherford, RN, CFRN, NREMT-P (not pictured) & Francis Castiller, MD (not pictured)