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Module 4 of 4: Publishing in QI - Using the SQUIRE Guidelines

Launch Date:
January 21, 2016
Expiration Date:
The accreditation for this activity has expired.

Primary Audience:

Residents; interns

Relevant Terms:

Quality improvement; publishing; SQUIRE guidelines

Daisy Goodman, CNM, DNP, MPH

Daisy Goodman, CNM, DNP, MPH
Certified Nurse Midwife
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Instructor in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH

Daisy Goodman is a certified nurse midwife in clinical practice at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and an instructor in obstetrics and gynecology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She received her training as a nurse midwifery at the Frontier Nursing University, a Doctorate in Nursing Practice in from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, and a Masters in Public Health from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. She completed a fellowship in quality improvement through the VA Quality Scholars Program in 2014. Her research interest lies in improving access to care for pregnant women with substance use disorders, and the intersection of trauma and substance use in women's health.
 
Dr. Goodman currently practices at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is a researcher at the Department of Psychiatry, and is part of the treatment team at the DHMC Perinatal Addiction Treatment Program. Prior to coming to Dartmouth Hitchcock in 2013, she worked in the community hospital setting in Maine where her work focused on improving access to care for pregnant women with substance use disorders on the local and state policy levels.

Farbod Raiszadeh, MD, PhD, FACC

Farbod Raiszadeh, MD, PhD, FACC
Director of the CIR Policy and Education Initiative
QI Innovation Institute
New York, NY

Dr. Farbod Raiszadeh is a board-certified cardiologist and PhD-trained research scientist with expertise in population health, epidemiology, and quality of care and outcomes assessment. He completed his fellowships in cardiology and electrophysiology at Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He earned a PhD from Cornell University in epidemiology and an MD from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He completed his internal medicine residency at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City. Dr. Raiszadeh served as national president of the Committee of Interns and Residents. He is currently director of the CIR Policy and Education Initiative's QI Innovation Institute, dedicated to expanding the opportunities for resident education and training in patient safety and quality improvement.

Greg Ogrinc, MD

Greg Ogrinc, MD
Internist
Associate Chief of Staff for Education
White River Junction VA Hospital
White River Junction, VT

Greg Ogrinc, MD, is a general internist at the White River Junction VA Hospital in White River Junction, VT.  He serves as the interim Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and as the Associate Chief of Staff for Education at the WRJ VA.  He is an Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine, of Medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
 
Dr. Ogrinc graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1997 and completed his residency in internal medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland in 2000.  He then completed the VA National Quality Scholars Program at the White River Junction Veterans Hospital and his Masters of Science in Clinical Evaluative Sciences from Dartmouth in 2002. 
 
He has held leadership positions including Senior Scholar for the WRJ VA Quality Scholars, course director for the Fundamentals of Healthcare Delivery Science course, course director for the Statistics of Improvement at The Dartmouth Institute, and as Director of the Office of Health Systems and Clinical Improvement at Geisel.  He is internationally known internationally as a medical education innovator and is the lead author of the Fundamental of Healthcare Improvement book, an interprofessional text to introduce students to the knowledge and skills of quality improvement.  Dr. Ogrinc is the co-investigator for the revision of the Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) guidelines, a set of publication guidelines for sharing quality improvement work through published literature. 
1. Describe the challenges in publishing in QI
2. Describe the SQUIRE guidelines and how they address those challenges
3. Capture qualitative data from QI successes and failures

Faculty Disclosures
 
Daisy Goodman, APRN, CNM, MSN - has no relationships to disclose.
Farbod Raiszadeh, MD, PhD, FACC - has no relationships to disclose.
Gregory Ogrinc, MD - has no relationships to disclose.
 
 
The development of SQUIRE 2.0 was generously supported by the Health Foundation in the UK and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in the US.
 
This Plan, Execute & Publish! On-Line module was created with generous support from the CIR Benefits Plans and the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU Healthcare). Many thanks to the faculty and residents who contributed to the project. In addition, we are grateful for the assistance of CIR QI Director Vivian Fernandez and module editor Josh Kilbridge of Kilbridge Associates.
 
 
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