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TCCN member group, Children’s Neurology, has been awarded a 1998 Society grant for a quality improvement project aimed to reduce emergency department visits and hospitalizations for patients with breakthrough seizures.
Why?
Epilepsy is the most common neurologic condition. Compared to other pediatric hospitals, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta was seeing more patients in the Emergency Department with breakthrough seizures.
What are they trying to accomplish?
Decrease ED visits and hospitalizations for breakthrough seizures, identify barriers to successful self-management, and cultivate a culture of support and empowerment for patients, families, and members of their care team. By decreasing ED visits and hospitalizations for breakthrough seizures, this project aims to decrease unnecessary utilization and improve the quality of life for epilepsy patients and families.
What changes can they make that will result in improvement?
Grant interventions are designed to facilitate consistent patient and family education across the care continuum and to empower patients and families to improve epilepsy self-management. Interventions include identification of high risk patients to receive targeted outreach and prioritization of follow up needs, implementation of programs to provide enhanced epilepsy education, and collaboration with TCCN to facilitate consistent messaging for patients and families across the care continuum.
TCCN has developed the following video in support of this grant. The video provides an overview of the self-management education and resources provided to patients and families as well as coordination of care documents for providers and how to locate them in accessCHOA. Teaching sheets utilized by the neurology team are also included.
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