Dinesh Pashankar

Yale University School of Medicine, USA

Title: Improving outcome of inflammatory bowel disease in children

Biography

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic condition affecting gastrointestinal tract and is characterized by relapses and remission. Aim of therapy is to keep children in remission for long time without any adverse effects of medications. We at Yale New Haven Hospital are a part of a large quality improvement network of 87 international centers. We use various quality improvement methods such as pre-visit planning and population management to improve outcome in our patients. We follow evidence-based diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines and regularly measure various parameters on remission, nutrition and growth. We have improved our remission rates with this systematic approach. Our remission rates of 87% in our patient population are better than target rates of the network (80%).