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Stephen E. Muething, MD

Vice President of Safety

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-2068

Fax: 513-803-9245

Email: stephen.muething@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Serious safety events reduction; high reliability organization theory; evidence-based care; family centered rounds; decreasing delays in discharge; clinical microsystems

Biography

Dr. Muething is vice president for Safety at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), associate professor of pediatrics and a practicing pediatric hospitalist. He spent the first decade of his clinical career building a pediatric practice and inpatient unit in rural southeastern Indiana.

Over the past decade at Cincinnati Children’s he has been at the forefront of multiple transformations in care deliver including family-centered rounds, systematic adoption of evidence-based practice and most recently patient safety. He has successfully lead multiple national and regional quality improvement collaboratives and now serves as co-leader for the Ohio Children’s Hospital Solutions for Patient Safety national network dedicated to eliminating serious harm across all children’s hospitals. He is a frequent contributor to quality improvement teaching programs at CCHMC and has presented multiple workshops at national meetings including Pediatric Hospital Medicine.

Education and Training

MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1984.

Residency: Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 1984-1987.

Certification: Pediatrics.

Publications

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Kirkendall ES, Kloppenborg E, Papp J, White D, Frese C, Hacker D, Schoettker PJ, Muething S, Kotagal U. Measuring Adverse Events and Levels of Harm in Pediatric Inpatients with the Global Trigger Tool. Pediatrics. 2012 Nov;130(5):e1206-14.

Muething SE, Goudie A, Schoettker PJ, Donnell LF, Goodfriend MA, Bracke TM, Brady PW, Wheeler DS, Anderson JM, Kotagal UR. Quality Improvement Initiative To Reduce Serious Safety Events And Improve Patient Safety Culture. Pediatrics. 2012 Aug;130(2):e423-31.

Kaminski GM, Britto MT, Schoettker PJ, Farber SL, Muething S, Kotagal UR. Developing Capable Quality Improvement Leaders. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012.

Muething SE, Conway PH, Kloppenborg E, Lesko A, Schoettker PJ, Seid M, Kotagal U. Identifying causes of adverse events detected by an automated trigger tool through in-depth analysis. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010 Oct;19(5):435-9.

Donnelly LF, Dickerson JM, Goodfriend MA, Muething SE. Improving patient safety in radiology. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2010 May;194(5):1183-7.

Donnelly LF, Dickerson JM, Goodfriend MA, Muething SE. Improving patient safety in radiology: concepts for a comprehensive patient safety program. Semin Ultrasound CT MR. 2010 Apr;31(2):67-70.

Miller MR, Griswold M, Harris JM 2nd, Yenokyan G, Huskins WC, Moss M, Rice TB, Ridling D, Campbell D, Margolis P, Muething S, Brilli RJ. Decreasing PICU catheter-associated bloodstream infections: NACHRI's quality transformation efforts. Pediatrics. 2010 Feb;125(2):206-13.

Mandel KE, Muething SE, Schoettker PJ, Kotagal UR. Transforming safety and effectiveness in pediatric hospital care locally and nationally. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2009 Aug;56(4):905-18.

Donnelly LF, Dickerson JM, Goodfriend MA, Muething SE. Improving patient safety: effects of a safety program on performance and culture in a department of radiology. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2009 Jul;193(1):165-71.

Godfrey MM, Melin CN, Muething SE, Batalden PB, Nelson EC. Clinical microsystems, Part 3. Transformation of two hospitals using microsystem, mesosystem, and macrosystem strategies. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2008 Oct;34(10):591-603.

Grants

Ohio Children’s Hospitals Solutions for Patient Safety Eliminating Serious Harm. Principal Investigator. Cardinal Health Foundation/Ohio Children’s Hospital’s Association. Jan 2011 – Dec 2013.