Patient Safety Through the Lenses of Health Care Disparities
The goal of this program is two-fold. The first, to design a metric for identifying health care disparities and to then develop a curriculum for patient safety improvement and decrease hospital readmission rates that focuses on improvement in healthcare delivery as it relates to the identified disparities. Healthcare disparities are happening within all healthcare systems, but which disparity that is most prevalent within each system is not immediately known because it is not currently tracked. The metric is designed for a retrospective analysis of programs or health systems to determine what health care disparity needs to be addressed within that system. The curriculum helps medical trainees reinforce and acquire the knowledge, skills, and tools essential for the promotion of patient safety through the lens of healthcare disparities. Evaluation is based on metric acquired, skills checks related to benchmark competency in patient safety, objective measurement of content retention and longitudinal measurement of behavioral change amongst residents.
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Project Contact:
- Julianne Purcell
- Statewide Campus System
- College of Osteopathic Medicine
- purcel64@msu.edu
Partners
- DMC - Sinai-Grace Hospital
- Children's Hospital of Michigan
- DMS Harper University Hospital
- DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital
- Hutzel Women's Hospital
- MSU COM's Statewide Campus community based hospital partners/ residency programs
Report of calendar year 2020 activity.