Past Cohorts
Winter 2020 - Cohort 10
Improving Lung Transplant Survival Outcome
Improving Communication Between Nurses, APP, & House Staff
Improving Availability of Radiologist Consult Service
AI-Enabled Advance Care Planning
Increasing Access by Filling Out Appointment Slots opened by Patient Initiated Late Cancellations
Distress Activation Response Team
Increasing the Percentage of Patients with T1D Who Have Follow Up Appointments Scheduled
Improve Rates of Screening for Fall Risk
Reduce Unproductive Visits and Costs of Care
Seeing Medically Urgent within 10 Days of Referral
Summer 2019 - Cohort 9
Reducing CCSB Lab Order Variation
Goldilocks and Opioid Epidemic
Standardization of Care for Elective Aortic Procedures
Preventing Post-Op Cognitive Dysfunction
Reducing Insurance Denials and Improve Pre-Authorization Process
Improve Patient Experience for Bariatric Surgery Patients (LOS)
Improving Sepsis Treatment within 1 Hour (Golden Hour)
Improve Performance on the Screening for Diabetic Eye Quality Measure
Winter 2019 - Cohort 8
Improving H1 Neurology Patient’s understanding of Medications at the Transition of Care
Improving Physician Courtesy in the Emergency Department
Improving the Surgical Authorization Process for Thoracic and Urologic Oncology Patients
Improving Patient Response Rate for the Neurosurgery Spine Quality of Life Survey
Improving Documentation of Debility for General Medicine Inpatients
Identifying and Documenting Caregivers
Reducing Duration of IV Antihypertensive Use in Hypertensive Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Hypertension Control: Increasing the number of UHA Patients at Target Blood Pressure
Summer 2018 - Cohort 7
Improving Perioperative Glucose Management
Reducing Turnover Time Between Cases in the Electorphysiology Labs
Improving LTR in the ED’s Fast Track Zone
Improving Patient Response Rate for the Neurosurgery Spine Quality of Life Survey
Decreasing Rates of No Shows in Non-English Head & Neck Cancer Patients
Streamlining Simple Cystitis Care in Express Care
Increasing Referrals to Comprehensive Tobacco Cessation Treatment Program
Improve UHA Colorectal Cancer Screening Metrics
Reducing Diagnostic + Treatment Variability for Neonatal Jaundice
Winter 2018 - Cohort 6
Delays in Contacting and Scheduling Patients Referred to the general Neurology Clinic
Reducing Perioperative Costs for Cranial Procedures
Improving Access to In-Lab Sleep Studies
Reducing LOS for CABG/Valve Procedures in Cardiac Surgery
Reducing Opioid Utilization in Urologic Oncology Patients
Intermediate Care Nursery Discharge Education
Creating an Efficient and Safe Handoff Process Between the Stanford ED and Packard El Camino
Summer 2017 - Cohort 5
Toward High-Value Care on the Neurology Inpatient Service
Improving Communication of Radiology Critical Results
Decrease Level 3/4/5 ED Visits for Stanford Primary Care Empaneled Patients in Senior Care and Los Altos
Balancing Patient Centricity with Efficiency for Medical Oncology Infusion Patients
Spine Implant Pricing Optimization
Vessel Preservation in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
Reduction of CLABSIs in the NICU
Increasing Hand Hygiene Compliance in the Bass Center
Reducing 72-hour Emergency Department Revisit Rates at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
Improve UHA Patient Experience
Winter 2017 - Cohort 4
Improving Effectiveness of Care Coordinator Notetaking in the Primary Care Office Visit
Improving Initial Treatment of Walk-in Pediatric Asthma Patients (age 2-19 years) in the ED
Safe Transitions: Identifying and Resolving Patient’s Unmet Needs Using Enterprise Post-discharge Phone Calls
Improving Safe Prescribing of Controlled Substances in Stanford Internal Medicine
Ensuring Timely Delivery of Radiation Therapy After Surgery for Patients with Oral Cavity Cancer at SHC
Increasing Stroke Specific Order Set Usage in the ICU
Develop Information Capture Tools to Understand Ambulatory Central Line Blood Stream Infections at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Decreasing Variability of Analgesia/Sedation for Mechanically Ventilated PICU Patients
Decreasing Time From Clean Bed Identification to Patient Transfer from PICU to Acute Care
Advanced Dementia and Disruptive Behaviors in Acute Care Hospital
Summer 2016 - Cohort 3
Improving Collaborative Care with Clinical Pharmacists for Diabetes and Hypertension Control in Stanford Primary Care Clinics
Liver Transplant Improving Waitlist Attrition
Improving Neurosurgery Clinic Work Flow
Improving Advance Care Planning
Systematizing Measurement Based Care in Outpatient Psychiatry
Improving LOS for Pediatric Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
Decreasing Medication Errors in the Intraoperative Settings
Decreasing Hospital Acquired Pneumonia
Winter 2016 - Cohort 2
Reducing Atrial Fibrillation (Afib) Readmissions
Reducing Over-Sedation and Delirium in Mechanically Ventilated Patients in the E2 ICU
Improvement of the Utilization of the Daily Goals Sheet on E-2 Intensive Care Unit
Improving Compliance in Target Door to Revascularization Time for Ischemic Stroke Patients Requiring Endovascular Treatment
Chronic Care Management & Model Clinic Review
Improving Appropriate Testing for C. difficile (B3/Cb)
Reducing PICU Length of Stay for Uncomplicated Pediatric Liver Transplant Patients
Reducing Surgical Site Infections in Patients Undergoing Cardiovascular Surgery
Lung Cancer Screening Improving Outcomes by Standardizing Interpretation, Reporting, and Follow-up Management Recommendations
Summer 2015 - Cohort 1
Discharge Readiness: Increasing discharge readiness for inpatients
Consistent Post Procedure Follow Up for TACE patients
Prevention of Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers
Interventional Home: Reducing Intraoperative Variation with Colorectal Surgery & Intra-operative Standardization of Patient Care
Antimicrobial Safety and Sustainability – Improving Inhaled Ribavirin Usage
Improving Documentation of ABO Verification Prior to Heart Transplantation
HLA Testing Utilization in Lung Transplant Recipients
Improving the Adequacy of Clinical Histories
Communicating Palliative Medicine Value
Diabetes Care
Screening for Depression at Alameda Family Physicians
Standardizing the Perioperative Care of Tetralogy of Fallot (Building a Prototype)
Improving the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Discharge Process
Increase Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding Rates
Increasing Timely Referrals to Evidence-based Psychotherapy Treatment
Decreasing the Proportion of Patients Who Require Opioid Analgesia in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) After Laparoscopic Abdominal Surgery
Winter 2020 - Cohort 15
Improving depression screening and triage in Primary Care
Increase video visits at Stanford Express Care
Improve compliance w/ our standardized dysphagia screen for stroke Pts in E2
Increase effectiveness of intra-operative X-ray for rule out of retained foreign bodies
Optimize appropriate O-Negative RBC usage
Improve TAT for Immunohistochemistry stains, ideally from 1 day to 0.5 day for 80% of stains
Expand digital health and virtual care capabilities to drive access
Winter 2020 - Cohort 14
Increasing advance care planning documentation for BMT recipients
Reducing average time spent by patients in the ophthalmology clinic
Reducing length of stay for urgent start dialysis patients
Improving advance care planning documentation for Santa Clara primary care
Spine surgical trays optimization
Summer 2019 - Cohort 13
Sleep RITE: Optimizing access to cognitive Behavioral Sleep Medicine Services
Improving care provider likelihood to recommend at Redwood City Sleep Surgery Clinic
Optimizing TPN verification Process at LPCH
Improving follow-up for patients with a Body Mass Index >25 in primary care
Increasing general pulmonary access for patients
Decreasing antibiotic use in the surgical intensive care unit to reduce hospital onset C. Difficile
Summer 2019 - Cohort 12
Retention of new patient referrals in musculoskeletal surgical oncology
Decrease time to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Right patient right test right time
Goals of care & prescription intent
Improve psychotherapy clinic access
Reduce observed mortality
C. Difficile infection rate reduction
Summer 2019 - Cohort 11
Improving administrative associate’s career development
Improving knowledge of IT support and services
BABIES Onboard: Building a better initial experience for staff
Improving new faculty onboarding
Winter 2019 - Cohort 10
Lung Transplant to Discharge: Reducing length of stay in the hospital after surgery
Reducing surgical site infection through temperature management in the perioperative period
Transition of care (after visit summary) documentation improvement (H2G2P)
Improving radiation oncology sign-out procedure
Improving outpatient MRI throughput during daytime hours
Winter 2019 - Cohort 9
Improving Joy in Work
Reducing Red Bag Medical Waste in the OR
Ensuring Timely Communication of Dermatology Biopsy Results
Improving the LTR “Informing patients about delays” Score
Improving Cervical Cancer Screening
Improving the TAT for EM & IF Cases
Summer 2018 - Cohort 8
Reducing inappropriate intermediate level of care utilization
Reducing in-clinic Express Care visits for upper respiratory infections
Reducing Surgical Site Infections by optimizing pre-operative glycemic management
Improving Histology Lab priority/rush case turnaround time
Improving CT turnaround time for the Emergency Department
Reducing the risk of adverse events in Ophthalmology Clinic intravitreal injections
Improving Project Baseline study participant throughput
Summer 2018 - Cohort 7
Increase number of accounts paid on time in Pharmacy
Reduce manual intervention of lab Billing accounts through EPIC optimization
Reducing consult to admission times from Emergency Medicine to Medicine Teams
Improving medication ordering processes in outpatient imaging
CCI edit reduction through optimization
Winter 2018 - Cohort 6
Improving pediatric development screening rate at Los Altos and Family Medicine clinics
Improving timely management of outside consult pathology slides
Increasing ultrasound capacity at Stanford Neuroscience Health Center
Reducing crossmatch transfusion ratio for cardiothoracic surgeries
Establishing quality metrics for pediatric neurosurgery at LPCH
Improving productivity and staff satisfaction in microbiology lab at Hillview
Decreasing turnaround time for pathology outside case reviews
Winter 2018 - Cohort 5
Improving heart disease risk assessment at employer based clinics
Decreasing door to fast track, and discharge to departure in the Emergency Department
Decreasing the growth in cost per unit of service in Palo Alto CT
Improving turnaround time for accessioning samples in surgical pathology
Improving access to CT guided procedures in Interventional Radiology
Improving the pathology coding efficiency to better meet daily demand
Increasing access for diabetic patients in Santa Clara primary care
Summer 2017 - Cohort 4
Improving blood pressure for diabetic patients in primary care
Decreasing missing medication occurrences for inpatients
Decreasing patient wait times at Boswell blood draw
Decreasing the turn-around time for ED patients needing a CT scan
Improving the process for obtaining and renewing visas in the School of Medicine
Improving the process for breast cancer wire localizations at the cancer center
Improving MRI scanner utilization at LPCH
Summer 2017 - Cohort 3
Improving population health measures for diabetes and breast cancer screening
Decreasing lab result turnaround time for cancer center patients
Improving the method in which information is communicated for clinical trial biopsies
Improving the onboarding process in radiology
Improving the adequacy of clinical histories provided for ED patients
Improving patient communication methods in dermatology and ophthalmology
Decreasing the number of patient equipment outages in OR/ANES/PACU
Winter 2016 - Cohort 2
Improving quality of portable chest x-rays at a children’s hospital
Decrease wait time for walk-in x-ray patients at an outpatient clinic
Improve the “day in the life” for radiology administrative associates
Decrease wait times for a breast imaging outpatient clinic
Decrease the number of days to schedule outpatient MR and CT exams
Decrease wrong patient, wrong exam, events for diagnostic x-ray
Winter 2016 - Cohort 1
Improving mammography positioning
Decreasing MRI missed appointments
Improving communication with clinicians
Decreasing ED stroke code response time
Improving MRI capacity and efficiency
Improving adequacy of clinical histories
Reducing wait time for inpatient transfers
Improving efficiency of MRI protocols