2011 Presentations

A Lean Survivorship Program - Smith, Denton

A Sustained Reduction in the Children's ED Blood Culture Contamination Rate - Hill

Bisognano Keynote Presentation - Leading Together

Decreasing the Number of Patients Sent to the Outpatient Diagnostic Centers with No Lab Orders - Acosta, Woods

Decreasing Surgical Site Infections in Mohs Surgery - Taylor

Decreasing Duration of Mechanical Ventilation by Implementing Evidence Based Protocols in the Medicine ICU - Holland, Abraham

Fundamentals of Adaptive Leadership - Ulstad

Getting it Right from the Start: Emergency Department Admission Classification for Medicare Patients - Macias-Hoag, Murdock

Eliminating Elective Early Term Deliveries at University Hospital - Horsager, Santiago-Munoz

Improvement of Chemotherapy Order Preparation Process to Improve Patient Safety in the Gyn Onc Center - Smith, Spinks

Improving Care for Urgent Dermatology Appointments - Bell, Drucker

Improving The Effectiveness of Cleaning Patient Rooms - Acosta, Woods

Improving Hand Hygiene - Cadena, Grota

Making Quality Improvement Academic: Building a Division of Inpatient Pediatrics Through Quality Improvement Training - Ralston, Mayes

Mays CT Delay Project - Riley, Tulio

Molecular Diagnostic Lab Pre-analytic Improvements (Phase II Project) - Middleton, Phipps

Nash Keynote Presentation: Leadership for Quality and Safety: Seeking the Future

Neuro-interventional Ultrasound Improving Patient Access - Opuiyo, Steele

Optimizing Patient Safety Assistant Utilization - Andre, Paul

Pediatric Hospitalists Collaborate to Improve Discharge Communication - Shen, Shelburne

Perioperative Enterprise: Re-Designing Ambulatory Surgery Center Supplies Replenishment - Bivens

Pneumonia Core Measure Scores - Lee

Provider Adherence to Oral Chemotherapy Dose Adjustment Guidelines - Fowler, Kennedy, Winick

Quality Improvement vs. Research - Griffith

Reducing Avoidable Harm in the MICU Sustaining & Spreading Improvements - Phelps, Mayo

Reducing the Incidence of VTE Among Gynecologic Oncology Patients - Levenback, Kidin

Reducing Overdue Results at Westover Hills - Cange

Reducing TAT in the Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory-Phase 2 - Johnson-Hamilton, Lovshe

Reducing Ventilator Days in the Medical Intensive Care Unit - Rathi, Finch

Reduction in Turnaround Times for STAT Exams in Body Imaging - Boatman, Matta, Masters

Rise & Shine - Quinn

Systems Engineering in Health Care - Jordan

The Development, Implementation, & Evaluation of an Early Mobilization Program - Pravinkumar

University of Texas Clinical Safety & Effectiveness Program - Martin

Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis - Cobb, Schindler

Conference Contact

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