Resident QI Projects

Resident led quality improvement (QI) and patient safety projects

2021-2022

Quality improvement project to reduce delirium on Jacobi Floors. Sanjana Nagraj, Ahmad Anjum, Joshua Herbert, Omolabake Alabi, Ana Mariela Morales Mejia, Gaby (Maria) Rubianes Guerrero, and Gebremichael Zeratsion.

Evidence-based prophylactic strategies for venous thromboembolism in hospitalized medical patients. Rishi Chandiramani, Elif Karatas, Sneha Nandy, Gopisree Peringeth, Tinatin Saralidze, and Tatsunori Takahashi.

Current Knowledge, Perception and Utilization of Ionizing Radiation Imaging. Abdulhamid Bazarbachi, Sai Narasimmal, Tariq Syed, Gustavo Duarte, Gabriel Hernandez, Dimitrios Varrias, and Rama Al Hamed.

A quality improvement project to improve transition of care at discharge. Paras Malik, Luis Despradel, Hyomin Lim, and Nathalie Toribio.

OSA Screening in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease. Alex Wang, Arooj Tahir, David Drory, Lifan Liang, Xiaobo Xu.

Clinical proficiency of residents in point of care ultrasound (POCUS) and self-perception of quality of training. Jose Cano, Sheetal Mathai, Marko Novakovic, Juan Torrado, and Jee Young.

2019-2020

Medicine house staff wellness during COVID surge: a comparative analysis. Abittan, N., Friedman, A., Michelson, B., Pang, L., & Pophali, P.

Hypertension management in the ambulatory setting of Jacobi Medical Center: a quality improvement project. Arfaras-Melainis, A., Chamoro-Pareja, N., Safiriyu, I.& Zavras, F.

Physical therapy optimal consult utilization strategy (POCUS). Li, W., Osagiede, O., Parthasarathy, S., Saini, C., Wang, Y.C.

Discharge to discharge clinic quality improvement project. Muhammad, A.B., Hajra, A., Tavares Santos, H., Kakumani, K., Fabbri, M., Tedunjaiye, O., & Patel, R.

Promoting resident awareness and patient enrollment. Berges, M., Hache, M., Liaqat, W. & Pina mia, C.

To Avoid Telemetry Abuse (TATA) Campaign. Alvarez, A., Balasubramanian, P., Machiavello, F., Napolitano, M., Ramu, A., Veyseh, M. & Wang, S.

Choosing wisely: a resident driven approach to reduce the burdern of unnecessary labs in the inpatient medicine service. Mejia Saldarriaga, M., Benes, L., Chergui, A., Leiderman, E., Kushwaha, A., Krishnan, A., Cha-Fong, C.

Heart Failure Collaborative Task Force: An inititive to improve impatient care of patient with heart failure and assist with transition of care. Kahlon, T., Gashi, L.,

Imprivata Task Force: An effort to improve communication in the hospital. Chergui, A., Cha Fong, C.

2018-2019

Cancer screening patient information. Tregubenko, P., Sasidharan Nair, A., Chen, X., Katamreddy, A., Para, K., & Uppal, D.

Statin use in diabetes: QI project to assess compliance with the 2019 ACC/AHA guidelines. Uppal, D., Chen, X., Katamreddy, A., Sasidharan Nair, A., Para, K. &Tregubenko, P.

Effectiveness of hypertension nursing visit at JMC outpatient clinic. Chokshi, B., Derebew, L., Elabd, H., Friedman, N.& Goyal, A.

Obesity misperception at JMC outpatient facility. Balogun, O., Cohen, B., Pinsino, A., Wang, X., Alejos, D. & Nissaisorakarn, V.

Critical lab values: Do we care? Berto, C., Huang, W., Zamora, C., Ramani, G., Vijayan, M. & Arango, A.

Prevalence of depression, anxiety, alcohol and substance abuse in JMC clinic. Ghalib, N., Mena. O., Phan, V. & Lopez, L.

Incidence of depression, anxiety, alcohol and substance abuse in JMC clinic. Arango, S., Guerson, A., Krishnan, A., Kushwaha, A., Lokhart, P. & Offor, O.