IMPROVEMENT CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (ICDP)

SUMMARY

The Improvement Capability Development Program (ICDP) launched in Spring 2017 and is a collaboration between the Department of Quality for Stanford Healthcare and the Stanford School of Medicine. Through ICDP, Stanford Health Care commits to returning 1 to 4% of a department’s clinical revenue, to help develop and execute far-reaching quality improvement projects, depending on the degree of engagement and outcomes. The ESU joined the venture in 2019, bringing implementation science and mixed-methods evaluation expertise to our collaborations.

How does the ESU support ICDP projects?

We provide two distinct types of support:

1.       Consultation

2.       In-depth, partnered evaluation

Consultation

Consultation meetings are held with the ESU team and physician improvement leader’s (PILs) across all departments, and are intended to support PILs in the evaluation of their ICDP projects. During consultations we provide guidance on pragmatic yet rigorous approaches to study design, methods, priorities, and scope, to support high-quality intervention evaluation.

In-depth partnered evaluation

Each year, a number of ICDP projects are selected by a senior committee to collaborate with our ESU team. Selections are made based on operational priorities, potential for impact, phase of the project and potential rigor of the study design. In close partnership with clinical partners, we develop evaluation plans that have methodologically strong study designs with the goal of producing peer-reviewed publications.

For further queries on ICDP collaborations kindly contact project managers: Dr Erika Saliba Gustafsson (esalgus@stanford.edu) or Alexis Amano (amamano@stanford.edu).

FUNDING

The collaboration between the ESU and the Improvement Capability Development Program (ICDP) is supported by Stanford Health Care.

RESEARCH TEAM

Marcy Winget (Co-PI), Steve M. Asch (Co-PI), Stacie Vilendrer (Co-PI), Jonathan Shaw (Medical Consultant)

Cati Brown Johnson (Qualitative Expert), Erika A. Saliba Gustafsson (Project Manager & Qualitative Researcher), Alexis Amano (Project Manager & Qualitative Researcher), Samantha Kling (Quantitative Expert), Donn W. Garvert (Biostatistician), Darlene Veruttipong (Quantitative Analyst)

Featured Scholarly Work

Surgery

Brown-Johnson CG, Spargo T, Kling SM, Saliba-Gustafsson EA, Lestoquoy AS, Garvert DW, Vilendrer S, Winget M, Asch SM, Maggio P, Nazerali RS. Patient and surgeon experiences with video visits in plastic surgery–toward a data-informed scheduling triage tool. Surgery. 2021 May 1. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2021.03.029.

Medicine

Safaeinili N, Vilendrer S, Williamson E, Zhao Z, Brown-Johnson C, Asch SM, and Shieh L. Inpatient Telemedicine Implementation as an Infection Control Response to COVID-19: Qualitative Process Evaluation Study. JMIR formative research. 2021 Jun 16;5(6):e26452.

Vilendrer S, Patel B, Chadwick W, Hwa M, Asch SM, Pageler N, Ramdeo R, Saliba-Gustafsson EA, Strong P, and Sharp C. Rapid Deployment of Inpatient Telemedicine In Response to COVID-19 Across Three Health Systems. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2020;27(7):1102-1109. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocaa077.

Neurology

Falco-Walter J, Kling S, Saliba-Gustafsson E, Yang L, Miller-Kuhlmann R, Garvert D, Brown-Johnson C, Shaw J, Asch S, Winget M, and Gold C. Evaluation of Patient and Clinician Perspectives for New and Return Ambulatory Teleneurology Visits, with special attention to subspecialty differences. Neurology. 2021 April 13: 96 (15 Supplement), 1307.

Kling SM, Falco-Walter JJ, Saliba-Gustafsson EA, Garvert DW, Brown-Johnson CG, Miller-Kuhlmann R, Shaw JG, Asch SM, Yang L, Gold CA, Winget M. Patient and Clinician Perspectives of New and Return Ambulatory Teleneurology Visits. Neurology: Clinical Practice. 2021 Mar 9. doi: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000001065.

Yang L, Brown-Johnson CG, Miller-Kuhlmann R, Kling SMR, Saliba-Gustafsson EA, Shaw JG, Gold CA, and Winget M. Accelerated launch of video visits in ambulatory neurology during COVID-19: Key lessons from the Stanford experience. Neurology. 2020;95(7):305-311. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000010015.

Saliba-Gustafsson EA, Miller-Kuhlmann R, Kling SMR, Garvert DW, Brown-Johnson CG, Lestoquoy AS, Verano MR, Yang L, Falco-Walter J, Shaw JG, Asch SM, Gold CA, Winget M. Rapid implementation of video visits in neurology during COVID-19: a mixed methods evaluation. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2020; doi: 10.2196/24328.