A new paper co-authored by Dr. Carlton Moore and Dr. G. Cameron Coleman: Using Safety Barrier Analysis to Facilitate Quality Improvement in Health Care: Improving Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis as a Proof of Concept, was recently published in the American Journal of Medical Quality on June 21, 2019. Dr. Carlton Moore is a member of the CHIP Core Faculty, an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Associate Chief for Research and Quality Improvement. Dr. Moore's research focuses on clinical informatics, natural language processing, usability of electronic health records, and patient safety. Dr. Coleman is a recent graduate from the CHIP Master's in Professional Science in Biomedical and Health Informatics degree as well as a Post-Doc in CHIP's NLM T-15 Trainee Program.
Abstract
Effective quality improvement is a key factor in optimizing the care of hospitalized patients. Unfortunately, the US health care system has a poor safety record when compared to other major industries. For example, at 250 000 per year, medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Safety barrier management, a widely used methodology in high-risk industries such as commercial airline transportation and oil drilling, has not been widely used in traditional quality improvement efforts in health care, which rely more on standard lean Six Sigma quality approaches. The authors describe a quality improvement project that uses safety barrier analysis to help inform solutions to improve venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in hospitalized patients. This study found that safety barrier analysis helped inform solutions to improve venous thromboembolism prophylaxis at the study institution and can be a useful adjunct to standard lean Six Sigma methodologies for quality improvement in health care.
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