Virtual

As part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s healthcare transformation journey, this poster outlines an innovative approach to integrating virtual health services at King Fahad Specialist Hospital-Dammam (KFSH-D). Leveraging the PDSA cycle for continuous quality improvement, the project aimed to...

The clinical decision-making process for obtaining a blood culture in the pediatric population is highly variable and not standardized. Contamination and false positive results can result in unnecessary antibiotic exposure. We aimed at reducing the rate of blood cultures in...

Medical errors and harm are global phenomena and a top ten leading cause of death, accounting for over 251,000 annual U.S. deaths. The Salzburg Global Seminar statement (2019) emphasizes the analysis of real-time incident data to identify harm. Incident underreporting...

Hospital-acquired VTE is a leading cause of preventable death and has significant impact on quality across hospital systems related to both patient care and financial/reputational programs. Compared to other academic medical centers, in addition to other entities within MedStar Health,...

The collection of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) is constantly improving, driven by a desire to provide patient-centered care and use PROs to measure care satisfaction. This abstract outlines strategies to increase PROs collection among prostate cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment within...

This session will describe development and implementation of a National Quality Professionals Orientation (QPO) for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The QPO was designed by the National Office of Quality Management (OQM) collaboratively with representatives from VA Hospitals and Veterans...

Lack of mobility has been proven to lead to complications and adverse effects on hospitalized patients such as increased length of stay, pressure ulcers, falls and DVTs/PEs. At Atrium Health Pineville, we experienced challenges with both documenting and executing our...

We used the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDCA) process improvement methodology to decrease the prevalence of hospital acquired Aspiration Pneumonia* Review literature* Create a Best Practice presentation for staff on the prevention of Aspiration Pneumonia – Order swallow evaluations in patients with AMS...

Every minute that passes by when someone is having a stroke, 1.9 million brain cells are being lost. Recognition of stroke signs and symptoms and calling 911 is the key to minimizing long term affects of stroke and death; therefore...

Session Description Poster presentation about implementing a Lean methodology performance improvement project using percutaneous tracheostomy on the bedside instead of referring to ENT, thus decreasing waiting time, lowering hazards of infection in ICU, decreasing length of stay, while eliminating adverse...