Start Date

5-3-2024 9:10 AM

End Date

5-3-2024 11:00 AM

Description

Background

  • Outpatient Psychiatric services need to monitor certain evidence-based quality indicators that promote patient safety and guide standards of care.
  • Our Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) fellow outpatient clinic provides psychotherapy and pharmacological management to a population in a major metropolitan city, who belong to various minority predominantly African American and reduced socio-economic at-risk groups.
  • The COVID pandemic has brought about a lot of changes in psychiatric practice which includes Telepsychiatry.
  • This study aims to determine if greater use of telepsychiatry has resulted in changes in compliance with the evaluation of basic vital sign parameters of our patients during the peripandemic era.

Keywords

quality improvement, vital parameters, COVID-19

Comments

Presented at the 2024 Jefferson Health Equity and Quality Improvement (HEQI) Summit.

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May 3rd, 9:10 AM May 3rd, 11:00 AM

Measuring Standard of Care Physical Parameters in an Academic Psychiatric Practice During the COVID Pandemic – a Trainee Driven Quality Improvement Study

Background

  • Outpatient Psychiatric services need to monitor certain evidence-based quality indicators that promote patient safety and guide standards of care.
  • Our Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) fellow outpatient clinic provides psychotherapy and pharmacological management to a population in a major metropolitan city, who belong to various minority predominantly African American and reduced socio-economic at-risk groups.
  • The COVID pandemic has brought about a lot of changes in psychiatric practice which includes Telepsychiatry.
  • This study aims to determine if greater use of telepsychiatry has resulted in changes in compliance with the evaluation of basic vital sign parameters of our patients during the peripandemic era.