Q&I Rounds: Katie E. Raffel, MD
The Quality & Innovation office is pleased to welcome Dr. Katie Raffel as a Virtual Visiting Professor (VViP)! Please join us for Dr. Raffel's keynote presentation:
The Diagnostic Excellence Imperative in Hospital Medicine: Aligning People and Purpose to Reduce Error
Learning objectives:
- Describe current evidence on diagnostic accuracy, harm and opportunity among hospitalized adults
- Evaluate early results of the 'Diagnostic Cross-check', a team-based diagnosis model
- Identify barriers to frontline clinician and hospital engagement with diagnostic process change and explore strategies to create alignment
Dr. Raffel is an Assistant Professor of Medicine-Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine. Her research efforts have focused on identifying and describing diagnostic error among hospitalized adults. Most recently, she has served as a part of the core research team for an AHRQ-funded multi-site study evaluating diagnostic error among ICU escalations or inpatient death. In the UPSIDE (Using Predictive Systems to identify Inpatient Diagnostic Error) study, over 20 hospital sites are collaborating to review >2,000 triggered cases. This work prompted the formation of the ADEPT (Achieving Diagnostic Excellence through Prevention and Teamwork) collaborative, an effort to better measure diagnostic accuracy among patients with care escalation and death in an effort to create multi-site benchmarking and improvement.
