We will structure our presentation as as conversation in 3 parts: Clinical Care; the Research Surge; and Hard Policy. Within each, we will talk for about 10 minutes in a conversational style with a few slides, and then open it for questions for 5-10 minutes. First we will talk about our clinical care experience including how care changed at Michigan Medicine and at the VA with the so-called Humanitarian Mission—for both COVID and non-COVID patients, with some particular comments on the impact on families. Second we will talk about the concomitant surge in research productivity, focusing on our collaboration with Michigan Engineering to rapidly assess the safety of alternative approaches to respiratory support; standing up a state-wide quality collaborative; and supporting national and international data collection and what we learned. Third we will talk about hard policy choices, including the development of a Scarce Resource Allocation Team, the emerging recognition that de facto crisis of standards of care were in fact being used in some places, and the implications of this for inter hospital transfer policy during the coming Fall/Winter surge.
The IHPI Research Seminar Series is a lecture-based program designed to share innovative health services research topics, studies, and programs, with clinicians, faculty, research staff, and students from a variety of disciplines.
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