Improving the Care of the Febrile Infant: Lessons Learned from AHRQ's Implementation Science Awards (Text Version)

On September 28, 2010, Carrie L. Byington made this presentation at the 2010 Annual Conference. Select to access the PowerPoint® presentation (6.39 MB).

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AHRQ 2010 Annual Meeting
Improving the Care of the Febrile Infant: Lessons Learned from AHRQ's Implementation Science Awards

Carrie L. Byington, MD
HA and Edna Benning Presidential Professor of Pediatrics
University of Utah

Lucy Savitz, PhD
Director of Research and Education
Intermountain Healthcare

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The Febrile Infant-Who Has SBI?

Images of 11 babies are displayed on the slide.

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Background

• Fever in infants 1-90 days of age is one of the most common reasons for medical encounters
  • 20% of all medical encounters in first 90 days
  • 58% of all ED visits at PCMC
• Fever of ≥ 38C is associated with serious bacterial infection (SBI)
  • ~ 10% will have bacteremia, meningitis, or UTI
• Significant variation in care
  • Low compliance with guidelines
  • Recognized as a research priority by AAP, ABP, IOM, PROS

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What are we Doing About the Febrile Infant at Intermountain Healthcare?

• Not-for-profit hospitals, physician group, and health plan
• 24 Hospitals
• 144 Clinics
• 736 employed & 2,000+ affiliated physicians
• Serves about of the 1/2 Utah's population of about 2.8 million

Image of a map of Utah is on the whole slide.

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Intermountain's Clinical Integration Structure

• Clinical excellence is our core business.
• Implementation of evidence-based medicine as an institutional responsibility, rather than responsibility of individual physicians.
• Process identification & priority setting.
• Process and outcomes improvement through clinical programs structure.

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Clinical Programs

• Care organized by clinical services across the system (shared work processes rather than traditional departments)
• Led by practicing clinicians (physicians, nurses)
• Supported by operational and administrative staff and other clinicians from allied specialties

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Intermountain Clinical Programs

• Behavioral Health
• Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery
• General Surgery
• Intensive Medicine
• Oncology
• Patient Safety
• Pediatric Specialties
• Primary Care
• Women and Newborn

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Challenge: Moving Evidence into Practice

Reducing variation in compliance with evidence-based guidelines.

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Key components of our strategy.

The University of Utah/Intermountain Febrile Infant EB-CPM was developed using an evidence base derived from prospective research at our institutions & others together with a Six Sigma process.

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Key Quality Measures Included in the EB-CPM (The Intervention)

• Core Laboratory Testing (CBC and UA)
• Admit Patients High Risk for SBI
• Viral Testing (EV and Respiratory Viruses)
• Appropriate Antibiotics
• Stop Antibiotics within 36 hours for Infants with Negative Bacterial Cultures
• LOS 42 hours or less

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Implementation Process: Key Steps

Building EB
17 Publications

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Clinical Program
Discussion

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QI Test of Change Six Sigma @ PCMC

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Facility Intro by Champion

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Staff Meetings

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Ready Access to Tools

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Comparative Data Monitoring

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A screen shot of Intermountain Physician.org is shown.

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An image of a page titled "Inpatient Management of Febrile Infants 1—90 days old" and a flowchart of "Algoritum: Inpatient Care of Febrile Infants 1—90 days old." is shown.

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An image of two forms are shown.

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Image of a graph titled "Percent of Admitted Febrile Infants receiving a Urinalysis from January 2006 to July 2006: MK, PC, UV, and DX" is shown.

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Median LOS for Febrile Infant Admissions with Negative Cultures by Admission Year

Median LOS (hours) MEDIAN(LOS_HRS)
Admit Year	McKay-Dee	Primary Children's	Utah Valley	Dixie
2002	58.5	53	94.5	72
2003	58	48	114	64
2004	61	47	95	60
2005	63	43	72	53
2006	52	47	68	54
2007	50.5	46	53	70
2008	46	43	46	48
2009	42	42	42	42

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Evaluation of an Evidence-Based Care Process Model for Febrile Infants
Mixed Methods Study Aims

Semi-structured interviews to identify themes and unique aspects related to the implementation process, generating data to inform the spread

• Hypothesis: the successful implementation of the EB-CPM at each facility required multiple and different factors as well as crosscutting themes.

Cost effectiveness of implementing the EB-CPM

Effect of offering the EB-CPM for Pediatric MOC

AHRQ 1 R18 HS018034-01, 7/1/09-6/30/11

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Aim 1 Qualitative Analysis of Factors Related to Implementation of the EB-CPM

The 7S Framework of McKinsey
 

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Facility Context

Facility	SystemRegion	2009 ER Visits
PCMC(271 beds)	Urban Central	46,331
Utah Valley(367 beds)	Urban South	45,547
McKay Dee(311 beds)	Urban North	65,193
Dixie Regional(245 beds)	Southwest	40,430

All facilities are tertiary care, regional referral centers. Staffed beds noted.

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7S Model Levers	Intervention Elements	Emergent Themes
Shared Value	Board goal	Visibility & leadership involvement: A corporate wide effort, supported by a Board goal helps---knowing that everyone is doing it.
Strategy	Building evidence base; phased implementation; clinical champion visit	MD champion: Having a credible physician meeting in person with staff at their facilities to describe the evidence, rationale for CPM, and answer questions was important.
Structure	Clinical integration/programs	Resources: We have the clinical program infrastructure to determine priorities, identify solutions, and make decisions about focused efforts for change.
Systems	CPM; decision support tools; informatics	Tools: Providing documentation and support materials that are easily/readily accessible and that support or improve normal work flow.
Style	Feedback reports; monitoring	Feedback (to involved staff); and monitoring with valid measures; tracking costs.
Staff	Admin/managers, MDs, nurses, lab staff	People: Involvement of nursing to make it happen! Physician buy-in. MOC
Skills	Dx, process, lab tests	Staff training (with refresher), alignment with laboratory