About the SWIFT Initiative:

The goal of the SWIFT (Surgical Wait Times and Outcomes for Fracture Treatment) Initiative is to improve patient outcomes after fractures and reduce the associated patient morbidity and mortality. By studying context-specific patient and system drivers of poor outcomes we design and implement context-specific interventions to reduce time to surgery. Our first initiative is focused on  geriatric hip fractures, where there is a high level of morbidity and mortality. Our collective goal from this work will be to create an implementation toolkit consisting of a portfolio of context-specific interventions that diverse hospital systems can use to help overcome barriers in their workflows to better care for patients,.

·      Robin Kamal, MD MBA MS – (SWIFT PI) Associate Professor at Stanford University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Value Based Care Director and Medical Service Line Director at Stanford Health Care

·      Michael Gardner MD – Professor and Vice Chair at Stanford University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

·      Arden Morris MD MPH – Professor and Vice Chair for Research at Stanford University Department of Surgery, Director of S-Spire

·      Laurence Baker PhD MA –Professor of Medicine, Center for Health Policy/PCOR at Stanford University and Bing Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University

·      Lauren Shapiro MD MS – Assistant Professor at University of California at San Francisco Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

·      Alex Sox Harris PhD MS – Professor at Stanford University Department of Surgery, Research Career Scientist at VA HSR&D Center for Innovation to Implementation

·      Sara Kemper MPH – Research Manager, Stanford University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

If you are interested in partnering with SWIFT, please reach out to Sara Kemper, our Research Manager, at sara.kemper@stanford.edu.

Contextual Determinants of Time to Surgery for Patients With Hip Fracture. Link here

Evaluation of Systemwide Improvement Programs to Optimize Time to Surgery for Patients With Hip Fractures: A Systematic Review. Link here

A Tool to Estimate Risk of 30-day Mortality and Complications After Hip Fracture Surgery: Accurate Enough for Some but Not All Purposes? A Study From the ACS-NSQIP Database. Link here