AAO-HNSF Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Committee Charge:
Raise awareness within the Academy of patient safety and quality improvement issues. Educate members about evidence-based guidelines, practice standards, and other systems which enhance quality of care. Identify products, tools, services, and processes which lead to safer care of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery patients, and assist the Academy in making them known and available to its membership. Actively coordinate with other committees of the Academy and the Foundation, and with members of other relevant specialty societies, on issues pertaining to patient safety and quality improvement. Provide input to prioritize the development guidelines and performance measures used to assess and improve the quality of care for otolaryngology-head and neck surgery patients. The committee will also be responsible for the review, validation, and approval of requests to survey the AAO-HNS membership on topics related to patient safety and quality improvement, as assigned.
Bulletin Articles
The AAO-HNSF’s Patient Safety and Quality Improvement (PSQI) Committee is spreading the word on the importance of Quality Care and Patient Safety within Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. PSQI’s current mission is to share current and valuable information via the Academy’s Bulletin. Please take a look at the following list below to read about current trends and important information regarding patient safety and quality improvement initiatives.
- April 2021: Improving Safety by Studying Why Things Go Terribly Right
- February 2021: Fostering Wellness through Intentionality and Community
- December 2020/January 2021: Human Error Is Inevitable—So How Do We Reduce the Risk of Harm?
- April 2020: Intraoperative Sentinel Events: Righting Wrongs or Ticking Boxes?
- March 2020: Safety of Office-based Laryngology Procedures
- October 2019: Transforming OR Performance with Post-op Debrief Tracking
- June 2019: Resident Education in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: What’s New?
- April 2019: Physician Safety is Patient Safety: Good Surgical Ergonomics to Optimize Patient Care
- February 2019: The Prescription Opioid Crisis and Otolaryngology
- October 2018: Competency: It is Everyone’s Responsibility
- July 2018: Wrong-site surgery: A never event
- May 2018: Cognitive and Implicit Bias as Barriers to Optimal Patient Management
- March 2018: Crowdsourcing knowledge Learning from the Patient Safety Event Reporting Tool
- October 2017: Strategies to Avoid Patient Harm when Prescribing Liquid Medication
Choosing Wisely Campaign
In order to ensure a full circle of communication between patients and physicians, the AAO-HNSF has joined the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely Campaign. The AAO-HNSF‘s lists of recommendations were carefully selected using current evidence-based materials such as our AAO-HNSF Clinical Practice Guidelines. Please see our current recommendation statements here.
Any questions? Please contact [email protected].
Patient Safety Event Reporting Tool
There are safeguards to ensure the confidentiality of reporting. Once users sign-in to the Academy’s website they are able to access the platform. However, despite signing in, no identifiable data about the user is submitted with the report. Nor is the computer’s IP address from the submitting computer captured with the report. We have gone to extraordinary lengths to preserve the confidentiality of the reporter. Further, each report is immediately reviewed by a non-clinician at the Academy and if identifiable information (hospital name, location, practice name, etc.) is mistakenly included by the submitting physician, the report is immediately discarded. Click here to learn more about the Patient Safety Event Reporting Tool.
