UC Health Using Data for Improvement Session One: Patient Flow

Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Live Virtual

About the Statistical Process Control: Using Data for Improvement Education Series

University of California Health’s mission is to improve the health of Californians now and in the future by promoting health equity across the state and expanding access to care. This series shows how to learn from variation to improve health care processes and systems. Live and recorded sessions provide a practical understanding and skills for using Statistical Process Control (SPC) as a foundation for the learning health system.

The CME live session courses are exclusively intended for all UC learners. For more information about the Education Series, contact [email protected].

For assistance with registration or troubleshooting or any other CE-related questions, please contact: [email protected].

Live Session One: Patient Flow

The theme of this live session focuses on how to enable timely hospital discharge with a team learning process. Specific SPC topics include charts for attribute data (P chart), charts for continuous data (X-bar and S charts and the I chart), and use of a family of measures.

Recorded Modules
This education series includes 12 recorded modules, 10-40 min each, broken down by topic for ease of viewing. Modules are delivered via a streaming platform in the optimal format for your electronic devices. 

Recorded sessions on the foundations and methods for learning from variation, covering SPC fundamentals and practical applications. All professionals can access the recorded modules; however, CME credits are not provided. For more information, contact [email protected].

English subtitles are available for all recorded modules.

1. Theory of variation

2. Reading the Shewhart chart

    

3. Constructing the Shewhart chart

    

4. Distinguishing designs for estimation and prediction

    

5. Using SPC to enable learning and action

    

6. Types of Shewhart charts

    

7. Rational subgrouping

    

8. Drilldown pathway

    

9. Special issues with Shewhart charts, Part 1

    

10. Special issues with Shewhart charts, Part 2

     

11. The art of the chart

     

12. Using SPC displays in platforms

Fee: Free (UC Learner Only)*

*This course is exclusively for UC learners. During registration, you will be asked to provide your UC-affiliated email address for verification. Registrations submitted without this information or those that fail validation will be automatically canceled and notified via email.

Registration instruction for each live sessions:

1. Click "Register" tab on the course page or follow the direct link here: Click Here

2. Sign-in to CloudCME or create new account. If you are affiliated with UCLA, please use Single Sign On (SSO) log-in option.

3. Select the registration type "Using Data for Improvement - UC Learner Only Registration (Free) - $0.00".

4. Click blue "Continue" button at the bottom of registration page. You do not need to insert or submit any code as there will be no cost to this registration.

5. Complete the short registration survey and click blue "Continue" button at the bottom of the page.

6. Your registration is complete, and you will receive the receipt on your email. The registration and receipts are also available in "Registrations and Receipts" section in CloudCME under My CME (direct link: https://ucla.cloud-cme.com/cme/receipts?P=800).

Approved registrations will receive their zoom links via email 2-weeks before the course date.

Cancellation Policy
All cancellations must be submitted in writing via email to  [email protected] to ensure accurate tracking of registrants.

Course Recording
All registrants will be provided the opportunity to review recorded sessions up to 3 weeks following each sessions.

1. Explain how to interpret elements of and results from a Shewhart chart
2. Apply Statistical Process Control (SPC) to identify variation in care
3. Identify correct SPC charts and displays for illustrative cases, including reducing flow delays and failures in outpatient settings, improving uptake and titration of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) in heart failure patients, enabling timely hospital discharge, and improving hypertension management

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and University of California Office of the President. The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Recognition Statement: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (1.00 hours)

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Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), Standards for Integrity and Independence mandates that the accreditation manages all identified relevant financial relationship(s) before the program and adequately discloses relationships to learners. The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA adheres to the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in accredited continuing education.

The individuals below have been identified as having a position to influence the content of this educational activity. As such, they have disclosed the absence or presence of a relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

All of the relevant financial relationships for these individuals have been mitigated.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025