Partners for improving health care delivery.

We collaborate with health care providers and funders to drive health care innovation, within Stanford and beyond.

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Areas of Focus

Improving healthcare
delivery through:

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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.

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Context Expertise

We are subject matter experts in many areas

Palliative Care

Cancer

Team-based care

telemedicine

Primary Care

Nutrition

Provider Burnout

Geriatrics

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Projects

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Improvement Capability Development Program (ICDP)

We partner with Stanford clinical teams to maximize their learnings and successes in implementing healthcare improvement efforts.

Patient Pre-Visit Experience: A qualitative evaluation aiming to transform the onboarding-to-care experience for patients

Qualitative evaluation of Stanford Medicine’s leadership and physicians perspective regarding three interventions aiming to transform the onboarding-to-care experience.

Stanford Home-Based Senior Care (HBSC) Evaluation

Evaluation of the Stanford Home-Based Senior Care program.

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TESTImoniaLS

What our partners are saying

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- Laura Vaughan, MD

“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 our QI projects.“

- Margaret Smith, MBA

“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.“

- Laurice Yang, MD

“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.“

- Mrigender Singh Virk, 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.“