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The Challenge of Quality and Safety in the
Emergency Department in 2014
Kylie Stark
Nurse Manager,
Sydney Children’s Hospital Emergency Department and Co-Chair, Clinical Advisory
Group, ECI, NSW
Defining Quality and Safety
The language comes from other High Reliability Organisations that want to
measure sustain and enhance performance.
Safety = free from harm
Quality = Excellence
Establishing and maintaining a culture of Quality and Safety is a constant
challenge in the face of dynamic Health Care Policy and the changing Face of
Population Health
History – far have we come ?
1995:
Quality in Australian Healthcare Study – Wilson, Runciman et al
Identifies 16.6% hospital admits experiencing adverse event with 51%
preventable.
Over past 20yrs there have been numerous reports/investigations/inquiries
driven by crisis in Quality and Safety in Australian Hospitals ( Macarthur/Nth
Shore/Bunderberg/Garling)
History
1997:
Commonwealth Government commits $40 million in Acute Care Health
Reform
• Consumer participation
• Accreditation processes
• Clinical practice guidelines
• Performance measure and benchmarks
• Innovation encouragement
• Health information technology initiatives
History
1998 Health Minister Dr Wooldridge comments re the released report from
The National Expert Advisory Group on Quality and Safe Healthcare,
• “ This important report stresses the need for governments to provide
leadership in improving safety and quality practices and must also ne
addressed by hospital administrators, doctors and nurses in the frontline of
health care “
• ARCHI funded
2000 Australian Council for Safety and Quality Health Care established
(ACSQ)
History
“Safety First “ released – first report of ACSQHC – Health Ministers commit to $50 million to support the agency in National Healthcare Quality and Safety reform
First national action plan released by ACSQHC
• Use data for safer care
• Strengthen mechanisms to support safer clinical and organisational environments
• Consumer feedback and participation
• Design systems and processes of care to support a culture of safety and reliability
History
2001 Safety in Practice released. 2nd report of ACSQHC
• National Institute Clinical Studies established
2002: Second National Action Plan released by ACSQHC
• Open disclosure
• Medication safety
• Healthcare associated infection
• Co-ordinated national action re serious adverse events
History
“Patient Safety” released.
Towards Sustainable Improvement – ACSQHC
Strategies also released to address:
• Open Disclosure
• Healthcare Associated Infections
• Safe Staffing
• Accreditation Systems
• Standards Settings
2012 Release of National Standards
2014 - Are we Safe? Are we Good?
2011-2012 Australian Institute Of Health and Welfare reports 6.1% of public
hospital admissions associated with adverse event.
Should we be perfect ?
So many resources, reports and measures?
Why still so challenging?
Ownership of Role/Portfolio
2014: Where are we now ?
We are more aware
We are more innovative
We are committed in a
way we never have been
We are starting to
measure the right things
We have new challenges
External Drivers
• National Health Budget
• State Health - priorities
• ACSQHC
• ABF
• Infrastructure
• Increasing chronicity
• Ageing population
• Increasing ED activity
• Complex treatments
Internal Drivers
• Workforce:
o Scope of Practice
o Workforce behaviours
o Training needs of tomorrows’ workforce
o Multiple disciplines
o Multiple skill sets
o Skill set variance
o Managing it – recruitment - retention
Internal Drivers
• Clinical Practice:
o New practice
o Old practice
o Variance
o Guidelines – helpful or not
o Standards
o Safety and Quality Tools – BTF/Pathways/Handover
Governance Structures
Leadership
• Direction
• Vision
• Support
• Clarity
• Purpose
• Feedback
Data – our currency
• a HINDRENCE or a
HELP
• What to measure?
• When to measure?
• In creating an
environment that is
free from harm and
excellent in it’s delivery
what data helps ?
Bench-marking
KPI’s
Adverse events
Preventable deaths
DNWs
Valuable data … NSW Incident Management Sx
• We know what was reported
• We know how serious with
SAC scores
• We know where
• We know the themes and the
trends
• Most common themes
Communication
Right patient
Highest incident categories
• Falls
• Medication
• Clinical Management
• Documentation
We can learn lessons and take
action.
Falls programme,
,BTF,PECC,Electronic Medication
Mx,Time out
Performance – what matters ?
• Last year triage performance mattered
• This year it’s about 240 golden minutes!
• Time based measures can reflect
efficiency but do they reflect safety and
quality?
• What happened in that minute??
• What happened in that time??
Competence
• Did skilled people assess with expert eyes?
• Did the right diagnostics get ordered, completed
and interpreted by skilled people?
• Did the right treatment get ordered?
• Did treatment commence?
• Did monitoring continue?
Our patients
• Was the patient informed along the way?
• Was the patient included in the decision
making?
• Was the patient the focus of their journey?
• Were compassion and empathy visible and
constant?
• They are the public face of safe quality
healthcare
Why still such a Challenge ?
Why so different in the emergency department ?
• Its unpredictable
• Its unplanned
• Its dynamic
• Its after hours
• Its workforce is not consistent 24/7 – skill or numbers
• Its cradle to the grave
• Its crowded
• Cognitive load
• Interruptions and distractions
Unique factors
A unique feature in the ED is the high density of clinical decision making.
Limited time and limited information.
Factors like fatigue and sleep debt and cognitive overload can and do
threaten the quality of decision making.
Safety in the ED is linked to thinking and skills.
( issues identified by International Federation for Emergency Medicine 2012)
More Challenges
• Its unspecialised in a world of increasingly
specialised medicine
• Its loaded with time-based KPI’s
• Its consumers have high expectations and high
anxiety
• Risk is a constant
• Change is a constant
What does it look like ?
It looks different to:
• The patient
• The relative
• The doctor
• The nurse
• The administrator
• The executive
ITIs IT Communicatio
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Skilled
Workforce
Safety
Tools
Equipment and
Space
Audits and Data
Best Practice – minimal
variance Visible
Leadership
A Jigsaw Puzzle
Culture is over arching solution
• Leaders that lead
• Clarity regarding product
• Clarity regarding role
• Education at every level for everybody
• Minimal variance
• Adequate resources
• Make peoples work visible
• Measure and display what reflects safety and quality in
your department
It’s a recipe
Grandma’s cake
• Same ingredients
• Same amount
• Same temperature
• Same vessel
• Same cook
• Same CARE
People – our greatest resource
• Make them accountable
• Respect them
• Delegate to them
• Trust them
• Value, incite, experience and compassion
• Communicate
•Tell everyone everything every time!!
Solutions
• Ownership – find a way to create a Quality Role ( ECI Quality in ED
Project 2012-2013)
Solutions
• Make it part of everything everyday.
• A “just culture” - balance no blame with appropriate accountability
• Not everything is good for everybody – local modification of models of
care/safety tools/processes (CERS)
• Collect data that means something – then make it available to the people it
matters to
• Network and share and support.
• Influence –Whole of Hospital Strategies
• Celebrate the consumer commentary
Solutions
• Measure “ CARE “ – do we have a measure?
• Listen and engage our product – Patients and Families
o “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning” Bill
Gates
• Influence and control what you can
• Use data – we now know what errors happen, when and why.
• Value knowledge and experience
• Consider the value of Soft Systems – The Relationships (Hugh MacLeod and
Dr. Mary Ditton)
The one free thing !
Our future – We can never be sure ……..