Partners for improving health care delivery.
We collaborate with health care providers and funders to drive health care innovation, within Stanford and beyond.
AREAS OF FOCUS
Improving healthcare
delivery through:
EVALUATION SCIENCE
We apply rigorous methods to understand if and how well health care interventions work in practice
IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE
We help our partners understand what works well for whom, why and how.
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT SCIENCE
We combine rigorous methods with timely feedback to facilitate healthcare improvements.
CONTEXT EXPERTISE
We are subject matter experts in many areas
✓ PALLIATIVE CARE
✓ CANCER
✓ TEAM-BASED CARE
✓ PATIENT/FAMILY-CENTERED CARE
✓ PRIMARY CARE
✓ NUTRITION
✓ PROVIDER BURNOUT
✓ PLUS MORE
FEATURED
Recent Projects
Cancer Center Transformation Evaluation
Overview of the Stanford Healthcare Cancer Center Navigation Program Evaluation
Primary Care 2.0
Improvement Capability Development Program (ICDP)
We partner with Stanford clinical teams to maximize their learnings and successes in implementing healthcare improvement efforts.
Primary Care 2.0
Primary Care 2.0 Evaluation
We applied a rigorous mixed methods with rapid feedback to inform modifications to a team-based care innovation and assess its effectiveness in practice.
Primary Care 2.0
TESTIMONIALS
What our partners are saying
“ESU were incredibly supportive. They helped developing the best questions to study, assisted with all aspects of [the] IRB process, data analysis, paper writing and submission. Wish we could clone them to help guide more research on out QI projects.”
– LAURA VAUGHAN, MD
“I am finding that the marriage of quality improvement methods and implementation science strikes a much needed balance of improving care for our health system and sharing the generalizable knowledge that is generated in doing so.”
– MARGARET SMITH, MBA
“ESU played a vital role in building the study design and finishing this manuscript. I learned a lot about study design which I would not have known on my own and I feel that it has really inspired the other clinicians as well that publications can be done in quality improvement.”
– LAURICE YANG, MD
“I was very impressed by your team’s ability to grasp an entirely new subject in medicine and give very insightful suggestions as to how we could measure current issues and intervention successes. I was also very appreciative of how much I learned about qualitative data gathering in the last few months.”
– MRIGENDER SINGH VIRK, MD
A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FUNDERS
