Team Learning
A concise summary of a longer work that quickly informs readers about the content, purpose, methods, results, and conclusions
What is an abstract?
The unabbreviations of IPU
What is Integrated Practice Unit?
The infections that QA has built/building algorithms for
MRSA
CDI
CPO
SSI
This system in the human body is responsible for producing hormones
What is the endocrine system?
The only site in VCH to have a Level 1 trauma accredication
What is Vancouver General Hospital?
A practiced encouraged by Ignaz Semmelweis after comparing the mortality rates of mothers after being delivered by a doctor vs. a midwife
What is an hand hygeine?
Two metrics related to standardized questionnaires filled out by patients to assess their health status and their experience with care.
What are PROMs and PREMs?
An example of a CPO, this bacteria can cause infections in the gut and urinary tract. A non healthcare related risk for this is at Vancouver beaches during the summer.
What is E. coli ?
This interval provides a range of plausible values for a population parameter.
What is a confidence interval?
This site is our north most site for the sunshine coast
What is qathet hospital?
A analysis method to understand their competitive position, make better decisions, and develop effective strategies
What is SWOT?
The newest IPU program added
What is pancreas transplant?
What is Staph (Staphylococcus aureus) ?
This value represents the probability of observing your data assuming the null hypothesis is true.
What is a p-value?
The approximate number of people VCH serves across all regions
What is 1.25 million?
A game scenario showing how two rational individuals, acting selfishly, can end up with a worse outcome for both than if they had cooperated
What is the prisoner's dilemma?
The only IPU that no longer tracks a patient population by a surgery procedure
What is liver transplant ?
Of the three sub-classes of surgical site infections, this is the one that must involve muscles/facial layers and has purulent drainage from a deep incision that is not in organ or space.
This measure represents the number of new cases of a disease in a population over a specific time period.
What is incidence?
The date Cerner went live at VGH
What is November 5th 2022?
Two people that wrote about value-based health care
Who are Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg?
The 7 core outcomes shared by all IPUs
1. Pneumonia
2. Deep Vein thrombosis
3. UTI
4. Sepsis
5. Septic Shock
6. Pulmonary embolism
7. Surgical Site Infection
These are the two names for CDI, the former name and the updated official name that was changed in 2016.
What is Clostridium difficile and Clostridioides difficile ?
This type of electromagnetic radiation has higher energy than visible light but lower than X-rays.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
The four UPCCs in the municipality of Vancouver
What are
1. Vancouver City Centre Urgent and Primary Care Centre (UPCC)
2. REACH Urgent and Primary Care Centre (UPCC)
3. Southeast Urgent and Primary Care Centre (UPCC)
4. Northeast Urgent and Primary Care Centre (UPCC)