Public Health Student Moges Ido Successfully Defends Ph.D. Dissertation

2016 Sep 13

Moges Ido, a doctorate student at the School of Public Health at Georgia State University, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation this summer on quality improvement in stroke care.

"Quality improvement provides the best desirable outcome, efficiently, both in the industry sector and healthcare services," Ido of Clarkston noted in his research. But "quality improvement, however, doesn't always result in better patient outcomes."

The Georgia Department of Public Health, in collaboration with its partners, funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has been engaged in a registry-based quality improvement initiative to monitor and improve the quality of stroke care across the state for the last 10 years. Ido sought to evaluate the program's effectiveness in order to expand the effort to other sites or disease conditions.

Ido's research found that the registry-based quality improvement effort has brought significant improvements in ischemic stroke patients' outcomes.

"Therefore, it is critical that hospitals adopt a quality improvement strategy to change the process of care delivery and result in a better patient outcome," he noted in his research.

Ido is currently employed as an epidemiologist with the Georgia Department of Public Health.