Columbia Orthopedics Quality Newsletter

September 2020 Reading List

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Welcome to the September Newsletter from the quality team at Columbia Orthopedics. We are excited to continue sharing our monthly reading list and hope that this serves as a useful tool in helping you provide the highest quality of care. We would also like to welcome Divya Raman, our new Quality & Performance Improvement Fellow, who is joining our team after recently completing her MHA at Columbia University. Happy reading!

- Columbia Orthopedics Quality Team

Dr. William N. Levine, Chairman, Orthopedic Surgery
Dr. Michael G. Vitale, Vice-Chair, Strategy & Quality
Divya L. Raman, Quality & Performance Improvement Fellow

Annals of Surgery
The Perioperative Services Response at a Major Children's Hospital During the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City (Stylianos et al.)
The perioperative leadership team at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital details the swift changes made to care for COVID-19 positive children and support NewYork-Presbyterian's overall response to the influx of critically ill adult patients.

A Novel Interdisciplinary Iterative Approach for Optimizing the Electronic Health Record to Improve Perioperative Efficiency (Franceschi et al.)
The University of Miami Health System discusses their efforts to optimize their EHR workflow, promote OR efficiency, and increase user satisfaction through the leadership of their clinical informatics team.

COVID-19 and Racial Disparities: Moving Towards Surgical Equity (Bonner et al.)
Bonner et al. lay out system-level actions that can be taken to create a more equitable system of surgical care, emphasizing that health disparities are not new nor limited to outcomes in COVID-19 patients.

Health Affairs
Practice and Policy Reset Post-COVID-19: Reversion, Transition, or Transformation? (Sinsky & Linzer)
In this article, Dr. Sinsky & Dr. Linzer discuss how lessons from COVID-19 can be utilized to redesign healthcare processes and better achieve Quadruple Aim outcomes moving forward.

NEJM Catalyst: Innovations in Care Delivery
Professionalism Revealed: Rethinking Quality Improvement in the Wake of a Pandemic (McWilliams)
In this article, Dr. McWilliams discusses utilizing physician agency to drive and motivate quality improvement initiatives, as opposed to the traditional focus on measure-focused approaches.

JAAOS
"Virtual" Boot Camp: Orthopaedic Intern Education in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond (Bhashyam & Dyer)
Dr. Bhashyam & Dr. Dyer detail how their in-person PGY-1 skills course was adapted into a "virtual" boot camp incorporating validated training modules and guidelines from the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

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