VAQUIC
VAQUIC is Vanderbilt Anesthesia Quality Initiatives Committee — a committee of quality improvement experts who want to elevate the quality improvement work being conducted within anesthesiology and perioperative medicine to optimize care services, processes or outcomes for patients.
The purpose of VAQUIC is to evaluate QI projects aimed at improving clinical outcomes, workflow efficiency, communication, and overall patient and provider experience. VAQUIC helps with:
- Data extraction from EPIC
- One time extraction
- Repeated extractions over a specified time
- Creation of a dashboard