The pediatric hospital medicine division has nearly 4,000 patient admissions each year and takes care of a wide variety of patients, including an increasingly medically complex population. Because of the nature of our work, we collaborate frequently with other specialities, and often share patients with the ER, NICU, PICU and surgical services. Because of the high-volume of our complex patient service and our close relationship with the pediatric residents, we are often aware of--and frequently ...

The Pediatric Pulmonary Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement (MM&I) Conference offers an educational session and discussion forum to emphasize safe and high-quality patient care as part of the clinical care mission of the Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonary Medicine at VUMC. In this conference, we review patient cases or situations that occurred in the inpatient or outpatient settings and focus on systems-based problems. The conference includes representation from all f...

Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement conference for the Pediatric Burn patient population. Discussion will also be had regarding current patients in the hospital as well as complex patients that are being followed in the outpatient setting.

To evaluate the care of a trauma patient from a clinical and systems perspective and to perform interdisciplinary implementation of improvement strategies. It is responsible for establishing objective criteria for identifying issues for review and determining compliance with standard of care. Recommendations and/or action plans with associated re-evaluation (if applicable) will be made when areas needing improvement are determined. Provide the structure and organization to promote performance im...

Monthly MMI meeting that goes over recent pediatric transplant cases, with lessons learned, practice changes, and corrective action planning.

Neonatology MMI Conference is offered monthly. Participants will engage in education on the value of obtaining post-mortem examination and improving patient outcomes. A variety of topics from researchers in several disciplines from across the VU and VUMC institutions will be covered.

Case based discussion of system wide clinical practice opportunities involving perioperative and medical case scenarios. Cases are presented, interactive discussion with attendees on opportunities and challenges, review of key practice recommendations on case based topic presented.

This meeting is meant to serve as an internal review committee managing safety issues in the perioperative arena. These include review of patient harm events, veritas reports, medication errors, etc. In addition, our group is committed to supporting quality improvement projects throughout the perioperative space from attendings, nurse leaders/staff, residents and fellows to improve our care of children. The group is attended by representatives from surgery and anesthesia, both physicians and n...

This meeting is presented live in a Power Point format with educational review of the identified errors in a case based fashion with active participation of attendees, discussion and feedback. The Power Point is stored in the Pediatric cardiology PHI drive stored at vumc.org for future review/revision.

Vascular Anomalies Case Conference is offered twice monthly. Participants will engage in education on management of patients with vascular anomalies and improving patient outcomes. A variety of topics from researchers in several disciplines from across the VU and VUMC institutions will be covered.