Synopsis: In this Grand Round Professor Dean Kurth will describe Quality Improvement Science.  He will explain the tools of Quality Improvement Science- run charts, control charts, “PDSA cycles”.  He will share the enterprise-wide and several divisional-quality dashboards used in QA Science at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and describe conduct and results of clinical quality improvement projects.

Speaker: Professor Dean Kurth is the 2014 Lillian Frank Fellow visiting RCH from 18-29 August.  Professor Kurth is Anesthesiologist-in-Chief at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre (CCHMC) and Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics at the University Of Cincinnati.

He is a world leader in quality and safety improvement science to advance paediatric peri-operative care and has published widely on this topic.

His clinical interests include neuro and neonatal anaesthesia and research interests are neurologic injury associated with congenital heart disease and non-invasive bedside technologies to monitor the brain. Professor Kurth sits on the Board of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia and is President of the Pediatric Anesthesia Leadership Council of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.