Welcome

The Penn Anesthesia Quality & Safety Implementation Group (QSIG) is a working group of on-the-ground anesthesia providers that accelerates the implementation of quality improvement projects within our department. The group includes anesthesia attendings, CRNAs, and anesthesia residents and focuses on longitudinal work, institutional memory, and proactive improvement. QSIG works with and under the guidance of the departmental Quality and Safety Oversight group.

Penn Anesthesia QSIG is indebted to the foundational work of Elizabeth Martinez, MD.

QSIG Director 

Sushila Murthy, MD, MPH                                                                                               

Director, Penn Anesthesia Quality & Safety Implementation Group (QSIG)

 

QSIG Objectives 

  1. Implement measurable, lasting solutions to quality and safety problems that have a high impact on patient care
  2. Create a representative, collaborative structure that will allow us to discover meaningful areas for potential quality improvement (QI) and potential challenges to QI
  3. Foster a transparent, dependable central body to which non-committee department members feel comfortable fielding questions, suggestions, and concerns
  4. Educate future leaders of QI
  5. Ensure longitudinal QI and institutional memory by maintaining up-to-date information on departmental quality and safety projects and ideas
  6. Link quality and safety initiatives to overall hospital system strategies to advance our mission