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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Quality Improvement Meeting 8/13/2009 Recap

Issues discussed:

Dr. Garrison did a talk on coding/billing.

We talked about the QI projects.

Broke into teams for about 30 minutes. Afterward, discussed all as a group.

Assignment:

Dr. Garrison would like the following issues accomplished for the next meeting 9/10/2009:

Each group should discuss independently before the next meeting and having something on paper regarding the following issues:

1) Aim of study

hypothesis

objectives

2) Background and Significance

justification for project, why is it important

planned supporting research (literature review)

3) Methods

what is going to be measured

duration of information gathering

4) Budget

how much will it cost?

Institutional Review Board (IRB)

Each group should consider putting together a proposal for IRB

*It's not that big a deal

*Everyone should complete online IRB training at http://irbe.mayo.edu/ (you only have to do this once in residency anyways)

*Each team should then complete one (1) IRB application for the group project.

Groups (bold = attended, bold red italics = leading):

Team A

Sawyer, Morgan, Garcia, McManus, Lynch, Robertson

Team B

Ludwig, Truitt, Schoofs, McClone, Meier, Lovold, Rybar, Oberhelman

Inpatient team

Couch, Michaud, Mansukhani, Caro

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