Leveraging Ethnic Backgrounds to Improve Collection of Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data.

Introduction: Healthcare disparities may be exacerbated by upstream incapacity to collect high-quality and accurate race, ethnicity, and language (REaL) data. There are opportunities to remedy these data barriers. We present the Denver Health (DH) REaL initiative, which was implemented in 2021.

Reducing Ophthalmic Antibiotic Use for Non-severe Conjunctivitis in Children.

Background: Antibiotics are often overprescribed for pediatric conjunctivitis. We implemented a system-level quality improvement (QI) intervention to reduce unnecessary ophthalmic antibiotic use.

Methods: The multi-faceted intervention in Denver, CO comprised a clinical care pathway, nurse protocol modifications, electronic health record (EHR) changes, parent education materials, and clinician education.

Sustainability of Interventions to Increase Guideline-Concordant Durations of Antibiotic Therapy for Children with Acute Otitis Media.

Two low-cost pragmatic interventions (change in the options in the electronic health record; change in the electronic health record plus education plus feedback comparing prescribing with peers) to improve prescribing of guideline-concordant short antibiotic durations for children 2 years and older with uncomplicated acute otitis media were highly effective and results were sustained 18 months after discontinuation of the active components of the interventions.