A Collaboration to Improve Low Compliance in the Utilization of Risk Score for NSTEMI Patients - 2022 Quality Summit presentation (Non-CE)-A Collaboration to Improve Low Compliance in the Utilization of Risk Score for NSTEMI Patients

A Collaboration to Improve Low Compliance in the Utilization of Risk Score for NSTEMI Patients - Baquerizo

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The video transcript provides an overview of a quality improvement project at Riverview Medical Center, a hospital in New Jersey. The project focuses on improving compliance with risk score documentation for non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) patients and the impact on the identification of high-risk patients who receive early invasive strategies. The video explains the importance of risk score stratification in determining treatment strategies and predicting outcomes for NSTEMI patients. It also highlights two quality metrics related to risk score stratification (metric 50: percentage of NSTEMI patients with documented risk scores, and metric 51: percentage of high-risk NSTEMI patients receiving early invasive strategies) and discusses the hospital's compliance and interventions to improve it. The interventions include providing education to providers, implementing real-time risk score documentation, and improving communication between departments. The video concludes with the presentation of data demonstrating improvement in metric compliance and the need for continued collaboration and discussions on optimizing the process.

Keywords

quality improvement project

risk score documentation

NSTEMI patients

early invasive strategies

risk score stratification

metric compliance