Academy for Healthcare Improvement

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Achieving a 4-day Length of Stay Pathway for Total Joint Replacements at Shepton Mallet NHS Treatment Centre - Arun Alex, BPT
• Are Coaching, Application & a Requirement Critical in Supporting Web-Based QI Learning? - Mark Cheren, EdD
• Length of Time Needed for Institutional Review Board Approval or Exemption of Quality Improvement Projects Among Subset of US Training Programs - Lisa Conforti, MPH
• Measuring the Effectiveness of a Time Out Procedure: Mismatch Between Electronic Self-Registration and Real-Time Observation - E.N. de Vries
• Did We Break the Childhood Obesity Trend in Jönköping County Council? - Linda Frank, RN, MpH
• Improving the Quality of Discharge Summaries: A Resident Improvement Project - Trina D. McKenzie, MD
• Use of Improvement Methods to Introduce and Initially Improve a Pre-Visit, Patient-Generated History - Brian W. Nolan, MD, MS
• Improving Prenatal HIV Screening with Tailored Educational Interventions: An Approach to Guideline Implementation - Beth A Prairie, MD, MPH
• Breakthrough Quality Improvement: Structured Assessments Yield 57% Reduction in ADHD Diagnosis Time - Tanya Ryder, Psy.D.
• Point of Care Electronic Prompts: An Effective Means of Increasing Compliance and Improving Outcome - Nanette M. Schwann
• Second Victim: Gaining a Deeper Understanding to Mitigate Suffering - Susan D. Scott
• Improving Quality in Maternity by Safe Training, Monitoring Outcomes and Disseminating Good Practice - Dimitrios Siassakos, MD, MSc, MRCOG, DLSTHM, DRSH
• Assessing the Effects of a Simulation-Based Training Initiative on PACU Handoffs - Jason M. Slagle, PhD
• TeamSTEPPS™ in the Pediatric and Surgical ICUs: A Quality Improvement Project - Renae Stafford, MD

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• The Rhode Island ICU Collaborative: Results on a Statewide Effort to Improve Clinical Outcomes - Margaret Cornell, MS, RN
• The Lonely Road to Heparin Nomogram Perfection - Karen R. Cox, PhD, RN
• The SURgical Patient Safety System (SURPASS): Development and Implementation of a Tool for a Safer Surgical Pathway - E.N. de Vries, MD
• 'We Will Not Let You Bleed'- Journey of Anticoagulation Taskforce - Jeannine DiNella, RN, MSN
• A Successful Rapid Response Team Model: Decreasing Cardiac Arrests by Utilizing "STAT" Nurses and Crew Resource Management Techniques - Joseph A. Johnson, RN
• The Daily Plan: Patients Taking Part in Patient Safety - Beth J. King, RN, BSN, MA, CCM
• Building Capacity for Improvement Knowledge in Family Medicine Residency Training - Cat Livingston, MD, MPH(c)
• Medical Team Training in the Veterans Administration; Assessment of the First 32 Facilities to Complete the Program - Julia Neily, RN, MS, MPH
• A Multi-Institutional Study Measuring Educational Interventions for Interdisciplinary Teamwork for Nursing and Medical Students - Gwen Sherwood, PhD, RN, FAAN
• Improving Critical Care: Collaborative versus Toolkit Approaches to Quality Improvement - Theodore Speroff, PhD
• Impact of Collaborative Quality Improvement Project on Incidence and Mortality of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in 18 Hospitals in Thailand - Akeau Unahalekhaka, RN, PhD
• Private Practice Office-Based Lifestyle Intervention Reduced Cardiac Interventions - Stanley B. Wolfe, MD, FACC

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