1. University of Texas Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Program
Second Year Evaluation
Sherry Martin, Chancellor’s Health Fellow in Clinical Safety and Effectiveness

2. University of Texas Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Program
Goal:
To integrate quality and safety concepts into the way we do our work everyday and enhance organizational knowledge through disseminated successful practices across the UT System
The Clinical Safety and Effectiveness (CS&E) quality improvement course
Annual conference and recognition event
University of Texas CS&E Fellowship Core UT

3. CS&E Course Objectives and Related Measures
Establish the course at each of the UT healthcare organizations
# of organizations achieving full implementation
Achieve a critical mass of graduates, completing successful projects
# of graduates
# of successful projects

4. CSE Course Implementation Second Year Results
Fully implemented at MDACC, UTHSC – Houston, UTSW, and UTHSCSA
608 Graduates + 81 enrolled
300 Completed projects + 26 underway
UTMB - ready to implement before hurricane; ready to resume implementation
UT-Tyler collaborating establishing course together with local affiliate
All campuses have course graduates

5. University of Texas CS&E Annual Conference and Recognition Event
Goals:
Transfer learning and applicable best practices across the UT health care organizations
Recognize exceptional individual and team improvement efforts
Develop ideas and concepts to drive system-wide improvement initiatives

6. UT CS&E Conference Organizational Learning Goal Measures
# of abstracts submitted and accepted for presentation
# of conference participants
# of participants adopting CS&E project practices
# of projects achieving sustained results
# of publications by CS&E graduates

7. First Year CS&E Conference Results
60 abstracts submitted; 55 accepted
205 participants
64% physicians
21% nurses, pharmacists, technologists
“Met my expectations”- 96%
“Do you intend to make a change or apply the information learned?” – 86%

8. Second Year CS&E Conference Results
80 abstracts submitted; 95% accepted
Score to be considered for awards = greater than 825
Registration closed at 270
No projects submitted under “Adopted ”
Several projects demonstrated sustained results over 2 years or more
18 publications by CS&E graduates in peer-reviewed journals; numerous graduates presented at national and state meetings

9. Course/Conference Results Quality Pays!
The return-on-investment for the projects presented at the 2010 conference:
$13.4M in project savings/revenue realized
$7.8M projected savings/revenue if even 50% of the projections are realized

10. UT System Fellowship Program
Goal: Establish a body of healthcare providers who demonstrate exceptional improvement expertise and commitment to apply these skills to make regular improvements and to educate others
Inducted 13 Fellows from all six UT health care organizations

11. Graduate and Undergraduate Training Programs
Integrated quality and patient safety inter-professional education into medical and nursing students curriculum
Established two chapters of the IHI Open School student quality improvement project
Developing internal medicine residency program focused on CS&E principles