From the 2023 HVPA National Conference Christina Cinelli MD (Spectrum Healthcare Partners), Brad Evans MD, Wendy Craig PhD, Sharon Siegel MD Background:Chest Computed Tomography (CT) and CT Esophagography (CTE) are becoming more widely used to diagnose esophageal...
Improving Appropriateness of Diagnostic or Screening Services
Streamlining The Clinical Management of Bronchiolitis in a Community Hospital- A Quality Improvement Project
From the 2023 HVPA National Conference Kanayo Nwankwo MD (One Brooklyn Health - Brookdale University Hospital), Abhinav Thakral MD, Tanya Tandon MD, Brittany Stelmar MD, Emmanuel Mosuka MD, Ratna Basak MD, FAAP Introduction:Bronchiolitis is a viral lower respiratory...
Exposing the dilemma of high breast biopsy rate of benign BI-RADS 4 lesions and potential benefits of implementing BI-RADS 4 subcategories
From the 2023 HVPA National Conference Houda Bouhmam MD (Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School), Ellen Lee MD In the United States, more than 1 million breast biopsies are performed annually, and approximately 80% of cases are benign. The new BI-RADS provides...
A Financial Feasibility Analysis Reveals Difficulties in Ultrasound Academic-FQHC Partnerships
From the 2023 HVPA National Conference Ariel Leong BS, MS (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine), Razeen Karim BS, Mark Schuweiler BS, Xiyu Zhao BS, Ting-Jia Lorigiano MD, MBA, Sarah Conway MD Background:Johns Hopkins Medicine, an academic medical center (AMC), recently...
Financial impact of telemetry overutilization for a health system
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference James Grace (Medical Doctorate, University of Minnesota Medical Center) As much as 20% of health care spending is waste. As cost of care increase, so must efforts to decrease unnecessary resource utilization increase. One area...
Decreasing Utilization of Screening Thyroid Function Testing in a Primary Care Practice: A Quality Improvement Project
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Sara Velayati MD (Long Island Community Hospital), Olga Karasik MD, FACP, Ravi Gupta MD, Zubin J Tharayil MD Background Although thyroid disorders are commonly encountered in the primary care setting, unnecessary thyroid function...
A Series We Do for a Reason: An Interprofessional High-Value Care Curriculum
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Jennifer Readlynn MD (University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry), Meghan Train DO, Chris Jacob DO, Valerie Lang MD, MHPE Quality improvement (QI) and high-value care (HVC) initiatives aim to improve overall health...
The echocardiogram effect on length of stay
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Alisha Maity MD (Lankenau Medical Center), Anna Sunnergren DO, Stephanie Kjelstrom MPH, CPH, Georgia Montone BS, Brian Sturgis BI, Erin Carnish MD, William Surkis MD Background Length of stay (LOS) is an important quality metric...
Do Surgeon Recommendations for Imaging Correspond with Imaging Appropriateness Guidelines?
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Shyam Ramachandran (Bachelor of Science and Arts, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine), David Ring MD, PHD, Tom Crijns MD Background Utilization of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed Tomography...
Novel Best Practice Advisories to Reduce Unnecessary Testing: A High Value Intervention
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Stephan Castellanos MD, MBA (Johns Hopkins Hospital), Jessica Lin MD, MBA, Amit Pahwa MD, Katie Anicich MBA, Pamela Johnson MD, Lenny Feldman MD Background Over-testing leads to inflated direct and indirect costs of care....
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