Quality & Safety Improvement Programs
The UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine is dedicated to providing the highest quality inpatient care for patients on the USCF Medical Service and to the promotion of quality improvement and patient safety throughout the medical center. Under the direction of Arpana Vidyarthi, the Quality and Safety Program aims to develop innovative systems enhancing our ability to deliver and promote the highest quality and safest care to patients on the General Internal Medicine service at UCSF Medical Center and to lead the field by disseminating our experiences locally and nationally.
With their diverse interests and backgrounds, members of the group are currently leading a variety of innovative projects. Selected QI projects being led by UCSF hospitalists include:
- Enhancing Care Transitions
- Collaborative Daily Bedside Rounds- a program to improve physician-nurse communication
- Medical Service Intern Signout- an educational program to enhance physician signout in the setting of new resident duty hours requirements
- Perioperative Performance Improvement Project- assessing the use of β-blockers, glucose management, surgical site infection and DVT prophylaxis
- JCAHO Core Measures in community acquired pneumonia and smoking cessation.
- Post-Discharge Home Visits- a collaborative pharmacy-hospitalist project for patients at high risk for readmission
UCSF Hospitalists are also leaders and key participants in many interdisciplinary medical center performance improvement committees including the Patient Safety Committee, Clinical Performance Improvement Committee, Physicians Advisory Group for Clinical Information Systems, Patient Satisfaction Committee, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, and the Patient Flow Committee.