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Education Clinical Care Research Associate Professor Benjamin Ong Associate Professor Benjamin Ong Chief Executive Chief Executive National University Health System National University Health System Improving Hospital Performance – the necessary ingredients

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Education

Clinical Care

Research

Associate Professor Benjamin OngAssociate Professor Benjamin Ong

Chief ExecutiveChief Executive

National University Health SystemNational University Health System

Improving Hospital Performance – the necessary 

ingredients

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• Can we define performance?– Are there agreed attributes for a performing healthcare institution?

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Our patientsOur patients

Starting right:Starting right:

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The Six Care Quality Attributes

• Safe

• Timely

• Effective

• Patient centred

• Efficient

• Equitable  

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CROSSING THE QUALITY CHASM: A NEW HEALTH SYSTEM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 

• Safe: avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them. 

• Effective: providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit, and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit. 

• Patient‐centred: providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions. 

• Timely: reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care. 

• Efficient: avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy. 

• Equitable: providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status. 

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Ensuring Safe Care‐ when mistakes occur

• 44,000 to 98,000 people die in hospitals each year as a result of preventable medical errors

• Estimated to result in total costs of $17‐$29 billion per year in US hospitals nationwide

• Physical and psychological impact

• Healthcare worker morale 

IOM 1999

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More commonly, errors are caused by faulty More commonly, errors are caused by faulty systems, processes, and conditions that lead systems, processes, and conditions that lead people to make mistakes or fail to prevent people to make mistakes or fail to prevent 

them. them. 

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What hampers performance?

• Wrong “business” model?– Patients are not central

• Clinician behavior or intent misaligned?• Insufficient funding?• Insufficient or poor infrastructure?• Poor operational processes?• Poor leadership?

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ENSURE WE HAVE THE DATA

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How safe our patients are under our care should be the start point of 

performance.

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Tracking Adverse Events

• Only when an obvious case occurs– Older method 

• No fault reporting system– Sentinel event reporting

• Doing retrospective surveys

• Using information technology

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Sentinel Event Root CausesMay 2002 to June 2006

Root Causes NUH (Rank) MOH (Rank) as on June 2004

Inadequate communication / coordination among healthcare team members*

1 2

Non-adherence to procedural protocol 2 5

Inadequate training 3 4

Lack of procedural protocol 4 3

Wrong or inadequate documentation 5 7

Inadequate supervision of junior staff 6 11

Inadequate procedural protocol 4 6

Inadequate/incomplete patient assessment 7 1

Inadequate communication to patient* 8 13

Lack of nece. equipment, equipment malfunction or poor maintenance

9 9

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Pareto Chart of Root Causes

A - Inadequate communication / coordination K - Poor physical environment

B - Non-adherence to procedural protocol L - Inadequate staffing level

C - Inadequate training M - Wrong clinical judgement

D - Lack of procedural protocol N - Lack of required clinical service

E - Wrong or inadequate documentation O – Human factor

F - Inadequate supervision of junior staff Inadequate supervision ofjunior staff

P - Patient factors/conditions

G - Inadequate procedural protocol Q - Wrong or inadequate patient monitoring

H - Inadequate/incomplete patient assessment R - Poor organisational culture

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•≥1 AEs were found in 5.7% of all admissions and a preventable AE in 2.3% 

•12.8% of all AEs resulted in permanent disability/contributed to death 

•Proportion of AEs and impact increased with age

•>50% of the AEs were related to surgical procedures 

•Among deceased hospital patients, 10.7% had experienced an AE

•Preventable AEs that contributed to death occurred in 4.1% of all hospital deaths

•Extrapolating to a national level, between 1482‐2032 potentially preventable deaths occurred in Dutch hospitals in 2004

Results of Dutch Study?

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Other Ways of Detection?

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Triggers in Kaiser‐Permanante Study

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Requirements for use of IT?

• Actively utilised electronic medical records

• Electronic order entry systems– Medication orders

– Laboratory and imaging orders

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DOCUMENTATION AND PROTOCOLS

Examples Examples ‐‐ JCI, ISO certificationJCI, ISO certification

We need to do this.We need to do this.Why do these fail and why are they insufficient in themselves?Why do these fail and why are they insufficient in themselves?

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The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adultsin the United States

N Engl J Med 2003;348:2635‐45

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Significant Variation

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Causes of Protocol Violations

• Low likelihood of detection• Inconvenient to perform• Authority figure requests violation• Copying behaviour• No authority figure present to disapprove• Others

– Gender– Group or peer pressure

Attrib – Jerry Williams

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PROTOCOLS ARE TOUGH TO FOLLOWPROTOCOLS ARE TOUGH TO FOLLOW

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Process Re‐Design

Identifying the value in the systemIdentifying the value in the system

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The Concept of (Continuous) FlowThe Concept of (Continuous) Flow

Achieving continuous flow Patient Centred Teams, Quick Setup, Get rid of waste, bring 

cycle time to takt time, Workload Leveling, Match Supply to Demand, Pull systems

Reg Consult Lab Test

X‐ray

PharmacyBilling

Reg

Consult

Lab Test

X‐ray

Pharmacy

Billing

NEW WAY OLD WAY 

Stocks Supplier

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• So this builds in efficiency– From the administrators’ perspective

– Probably from the patients’ perspective

But is there any benefit to healthcare professionals?But is there any benefit to healthcare professionals?

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Admissions to General Medicine

Emergency Holding

Target 

Ward

Other medical ward

Other medical ward

Surgical ward

Surgical ward

DecisionTo admit

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Implications?

• Patient scatter– Protracted ward rounds– Different nursing teams– Care by some nursing teams outside specialty– Coordination and communications suboptimal

• Admissions occur late in afternoon to night– Long waits at ED for admission

• Definitive treatment delay– Staffing levels compromised at night– Care by more junior on call staff– Deferred definitive care solutions

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Admission‐discharge Patterns

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CURRENT STATE ANALYSIS CURRENT STATE ANALYSIS HANDHAND--OFF DIAGRAMSOFF DIAGRAMS

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Clinical Team 1

Clinical Team 2

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Partially re‐engineered Process

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Impact of earlier discharges

• To patient– Shortened wait time to admission– Simpler discharge process

• To doctors and nurses– Rounds in fewer wards– Better coordination with familiar teams– Most work done during office hours**– Quieter night calls for juniors

• To system– Improved bed turnover and utilization rates– Cost savings for hospital**

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HAVE WE IMPROVED SAFETY?But wait …….

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Can we error proof by design? Can we error proof by design? –– Built in Quality  Built in Quality  

Error Proof ensures that we put in a process for avoiding simple human errors. 

Built in Quality Error Proofing, Visible Controls to Identify Errors, Systems for us to respond to and solve staff needs

Sharing Information 

Training / Verbal Reminders 

Error Proof – Level 2

Error Proof –Level 1

Constantly telling staff / reminding staff what to do and what not to do.  

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Two Levels of Error Proofing : 

Level 1: Put in place a system whereby errors cannot be made.

Eg. Diluted KCl, NRIC check digit in SAP, Drug allergy check in EMR

Level 2: Use Visual Controls

Built in Quality Error Proofing, Visible Controls to Identify Errors, Systems for us to respond to and solve staff needs

Drug Allergy

Error Proofing

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Visible Controls to Identify Errors(Lower level of error proofing)

• Create system to bring immediate attention to an error or trigger action to prevent errors.

Built in Quality Error Proofing, Visible Controls to Identify Errors, Systems for us to respond to and solve staff needs

• Being there for our staff when they need helpor pull the Andon Cord. 

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Design out error

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2‐tiered system in Safe Care

• Tier 1 – Ultra safety is achievable

• Tier 2– “Safer” attainable

– Need for aggressive efforts to rescue patients means audacity and greater risk inherent in the process

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WE HAVE PLENTY OF GUIDELINES!

Why donWhy don’’t we apply evidence to care?t we apply evidence to care?

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Applying known evidence to care ensures we provide appropriate care

Appropriate care should be provided consistently

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BURDEN OF ILLNESS Stroke remains the third leading cause of death in the United States. However, hospital care has a relatively modest impact on patient survival, and most stroke deaths occur after the initial acute hospitalization. According to the literature, only 10‐15% of stroke patients die during hospitalization. 

AHRQ

Reality check…

We only tackle a small part of the process We only tackle a small part of the process –– real impact?real impact?

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CARE COCARE CO‐‐ORDINATIONORDINATION

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ClinicalDepts.

Board

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Therapeutic

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Information

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Admissions Billing, etc. Med. Records Computer Info. Health Ed. HR

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Organization is into departmental or Organization is into departmental or ““functionalfunctional”” silossilos

We are We are ““comfortablecomfortable”” in this paradigmin this paradigm

‐‐ but this is where we need to think again & but this is where we need to think again & where some of the fault lies!where some of the fault lies!

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GET THE STRUCTURE RIGHT!

It is important that our healthcare is structurally organised to optimise 

performance!

Our structure is not mission directedOur structure is not mission directed

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%

WhatWhat’’s Wrong with this Chart?s Wrong with this Chart?

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We also sometime track measures in silosWe also sometime track measures in silos

Surgical Surgical ““wizardrywizardry”” is admiredis admired

‐‐ But surgery is only But surgery is only partpart of the care processof the care process

Choose the right metrics to concentrate onChoose the right metrics to concentrate on

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Inpatient phase

Investigations

Other care Other care teamsteams

OutpatientVisit 

Discharge Processes•Prescription•Bill settlement•Coordination •Documentation 

Watch the interfaces

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Hospital Discharge is very complex

• 1 in 5 hospitalizations is complicated by post‐discharge adverse events* – Some lead to preventable emergency department visits, readmissions or mortality

• Despite this hospital discharge procedures not usually standardized

• Communications to subsequent ambulatory and primary care providers (PCPs) deficient– Patient data not/inadequately transferred to subsequent caregivers

*Forster AJ  et al. The incidence and severity of adverse events affecting patients after discharge from the hospital. Ann Intern Med. 2003;138:161‐7.

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Discharge Issues

• Coordination– Arrangements for appointments and placement– Pending results and actions– Post procedure care issues

• Communication– To outpatient care teams – primary, SOC,step‐down– To relatives

• Medication management– Reconciliation does not stop at discharge meds

• Patient education– Oft neglected – multiple touch points!

• Discharge administration– Necessary but not central to care

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In reIn re‐‐designing processes, existing designing processes, existing organizational structures need to be organizational structures need to be ““broken broken downdown”” and functional cross departmental and functional cross departmental teams formed.teams formed.

Fixing only one component of the interFixing only one component of the inter‐‐connected system is not enoughconnected system is not enough

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The study revealed that the surveyed physicians were unaware of almost two‐thirds of the potentially actionable test results. The authors concluded that a better designed follow‐up system for test results return is needed to notifyphysicians as well as patients (Royet al., 2005).

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Why the whole system needs to change

• The Asthma Story– Apply best evidence

– Expected impact• Reduced mortality

• Reduced morbidity– ED attendances

– Hospital admissions

– Clinic visits

• Conserved resources for patients and healthcare

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Asthma Control in Polyclinics

Long

 term

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TKL APCI 2009 PIVOTAL CHANGES

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In asthma care, effective and consistent application of evidence in treatment has 

system wide effects

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PROCESS CHANGE NEEDS TO BREACH INSTITUTIONAL BOUNDARIES‐ to really impact patient outcomes at multiple points

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Ann Intern Med. 2008;148:55‐75.

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Ann Intern Med. 2008;148:55‐75.

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ENSURE STAFF STAY MOTIVATED

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Getting the Best Staff Performance?

• Competency– Hire well qualified staff

– Train well

• Autonomy

• Relatedness – Good peer groups and belonging

– Collegiality and team work

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Concluding Remarks

• We are human so we do and will make mistakes– Errors can be minimized

• Not a single fix– But we need to start with our area of influence

– IT can be an enabler to reduce errors• But care needed to map “to be” process 1st!

• Aim for “closed loop systems”

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Ingredients for Better Performance?

• People• Processes

– Whole system change needed– Reduce variability– Apply evidence

• Structure • Measurement & benchmarking

– Ensure the right parameters are used– Learn from the best

• Look outside healthcare as well for leading practises

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Thank you