Stephen E. Muething, MD
Title
Assistant Vice President for Patient Safety
Appointment
Associate Professor, General and Community Pediatrics , University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Email
stephen.muething@cchmc.org
Phone
513-636-2068
Fax
513-636-7247
Bio
Dr. Stephen Muething is a Pediatrician and Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He was in private pediatrics in a small community in Indiana for 13 years before returning to join the full time faculty in 2000.
Dr. Muething became a leader in quality improvement and transformation at Cincinnati Children's. He has graduated from the advanced training program in Salt Lake and has advanced improvement methodology at Cincinnati Children's. He has led improvement work at the acute care systems including improvements in evidence-based care and patient flow. He was a leader of the team that began Family-Centered Rounds.
Dr. Muething has now taken on a leadership role in Patient Safety and has a special interest in design for reliability and high relibiilty organization. He plays a key role in several national improvement efforts supplying expertise in improvement science.
Credentials
MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1984
Residency: Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 1984-1987
Chief Resident: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1987 - 1988
Position History
Assistant Professor: 1999-2005
Associate Professor: 2006
Assistant Vice-President for Patient Safety: 2007
Research
- Primary care quality improvement
- immunizations
Research Grants and Contracts
- Pursuing Perfection, Robert Wood Johnson Grant, Co-team leader.
Publications, Most Recent
Muething, SE, Kotagal UR, Schoettker, PJ, Gonzalez-Del-Ray, DeWitt, TG. Family-Centered Bedside Rounds: a New Approach to Patient Care and Teaching. Pediatrics, 2007; 119:829-832.
Gerhardt WE., Schoettker, PJ, Donovan EF, Muething, SE., Kotagal UR. Sustained Implementation of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines – an Academic Pediatric Center's Experience, Joint Commission J on Quality and Patient Safety, 2007; 33(4).
Britto, MT, Anderson, J, Kent, W, Muething, SE, Mandel, K, Kaminski, G, Pandzik, G, Carter, L, Kotagal, U. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: Transforming Care for Children and Families. J Qual Patient Safety, 2006; 32:541-548.
Luria, JW, Muething, SE, Schoettker, PJ, Kotagal, UR. Reliability Science and Patient Safety. Pediatr Clin N Am, 2006; 53(6):1121-1133.
Professional Organization Memberships
Special Interests
- Improved coordination of care in the primary care office
- Hospitalist care
- Electronic medical record
- Immunization registry
- Health care improvement
- Family education via the media
Presentations, Most Recent
Muething, SE. Outcomes of Family-Centered Rounds at Cincinnati Children's. Presented at PAS, May 5, 2007, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Muething, SE, Gonzalez Del-Ray J, Simmons, J. Family Centered Rounds Review of Medical Literature APPD Workshop, May 4, 2007,Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Muething, SE. Using Reliability Science to Decrease the Incidence of Nosocomial Infections. The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, April 15, 2007, Baltimore, MD.
Muething, SE. Improving Reliability of Health Cae in Your Setting. Presented at NICHQ, March 19-21, 2007, San Francisco, CA.
Muething SE. Quality Improvement in Healthcare, Crohn's & Colitis Quality Improvement Launch Meeting, Keynote Speaker, March 9, 2007, CHicago, IL
Muething, SE. Clinical Microsystem Performance Improvement Initiative. Presented at the Clinical Microsystem Performance Improvement Initiative, January 24, 2007, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, OH.
Muething SE. An Evidence-Based Approach to Improve Outcomes. DeVos Children's Hospital, Grand Rounds Presentation, November 4, 2006, Grand Rapids, MI.
Muething, SSE. Improving Outcomes Through Family-Centered Care, Galisano Children's Hospital Grand Rounds, Rochester General Hosital, 34th Annual Richard Mason Ham Memorial Lecture/Pediatric, October 18, 2006, Rochester, NY.
Muething SE. Improving Outcomes through Family-Centered Care, Grand Rounds Presentation, Women's & Children's Hospital, August 18, 2006, Charleston, WV.
Muething SE. Can Reliability Science Help Us Reduce Nosocomial Infection Rates. 2nd Annual Sick Kids Partners in Paediatric Patient Safety, June 8-9, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Muething SE. Improving Outcomes Through Family-Centered Care, Grand Rounds Presentation, Toledo Children's Hospital, May 17, 2006, Toledo, OH.
Muething, SE. Best Practices Outside KP - A "How-to" on Family Centered Care, Kaiser Permanente's Pediatrics Conference, May 10, 2006, Napa, CA.
Brinkman W, Simmons J, Vossmeyer M, Muething S. Family-Centered Rounds: Overcoming Barriers to Get Back to the Bedside. PAS Workshop, April 30, 2006, San Francisco, CA.
Muething SE, Byczkowski T, Britto M. Impact of Two Strategies to Achieve Extremely High Guideline Adherences. PAS Platform Presentation, April 30, 2006, San Francisco, CA.
Muething, SE. Improving Outcomes Through Family-Centered Care presented at Nemours Children's Clinics Pediatric Grand Rounds, March 22, 2006, Wilmington, DE. Published at Peds.education.org
Muething SE, Britto M, Byczkowski T. Taking Evidence Based-Care to a Higher Level of Reliability. NICHQ, March 16, 2006, Orlando, FL.
Muething SE. Using Reliability Science to Dramatically Improve Outcomes in Pediatric Healthcare. NICHQ Exploratorium, March 16, 2006, Orlando, FL.
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