Category: Quality & Safety
Composite Outcomes vs. Multistate Competing Risks
The primary outcome of most cardiovascular studies is a composite of several major events such as cardiovascular death, death from any cause, non-fatal MI or stroke. A patient is considered to experience a “cardiovascular event” if at least one of these outcomes occurs. Often, analyses are subsequently made of each event separately. This talk presents […]
Can Big Data be Used for Comparative Effectiveness Research?
Data sets in medicine and health care are becoming larger and considerably more complex, meeting the definition of Big Data. The idea has been advanced that such data can be used to compare forms of therapy and inform medical decision making. While this is at times possible, there are considerable challenges in doing so. This […]
Trauma Research and Performance Improvement
Value Institute Scholars meet regularly to discuss ongoing research projects, various investigative techniques, and current issues from a variety of diverse fields. Our scholars include Value Institute leadership and staff members, as well as clinicians practicing across a broad range of specialties within the Christiana Care Health System. We study pressing issues identified as part […]
Shared Decision-Making: Beyond Informed Consent and Decision Aids
Value Institute Scholars meet regularly to discuss ongoing research projects, various investigative techniques, and current issues from a variety of diverse fields. Our scholars include Value Institute leadership and staff members, as well as clinicians practicing across a broad range of specialties within the Christiana Care Health System. We study pressing issues identified as part […]
Health Reform and Transformation in Delaware
Value Institute Scholars meet regularly to discuss ongoing research projects, various investigative techniques, and current issues from a variety of diverse fields. Our scholars include Value Institute leadership and staff members, as well as clinicians practicing across a broad range of specialties within the Christiana Care Health System. We study pressing issues identified as part […]
Misclassification of Sensitive Health Information
Value Institute Scholars meet regularly to discuss ongoing research projects, various investigative techniques, and current issues from a variety of diverse fields. Our scholars include Value Institute leadership and staff members, as well as clinicians practicing across a broad range of specialties within the Christiana Care Health System. We study pressing issues identified as part […]
Observation Status: The Consequences of a Medicare Policy
Value Institute Scholars meet regularly to discuss ongoing research projects, various investigative techniques, and current issues from a variety of diverse fields. Our scholars include Value Institute leadership and staff members, as well as clinicians practicing across a broad range of specialties within the Christiana Care Health System. We study pressing issues identified as part […]
Handoffs from Operating Room to Intensive Care Unit
Value Institute Scholars meet regularly to discuss ongoing research projects, various investigative techniques, and current issues from a variety of diverse fields. Our scholars include Value Institute leadership and staff members, as well as clinicians practicing across a broad range of specialties within the Christiana Care Health System. We study pressing issues identified as part […]
Christiana Care Early Warning System goes Live at Christiana Care
The Christiana Care Early Warning System (CEWS), a standardized measure of patient acuity that will help proactively identify patients who are deteriorating physiologically and support timely care and improved outcomes, was introduced to clinical practice in select units in May 2017. The introduction, in which the early warning system is being displayed in five inpatient […]
Cognitive Assessment and Aging Physicians: Are Patients or Doctors the Ones at Risk?
The aging of our physician workforce presents a new concern for both workers and patients. Cognitive changes associated with aging can impact clinician performance. In some cases, cognitive aging progresses beyond acceptable age-associated changes into the realm of pathological aging with clinically significant performance consequences. This presentation will describe normative cognitive aging and how this […]