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Abstracts

• 21st Annual Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Scientific Symposium on Improving the Quality and Value of Health Care (22 October, 2015) Free

  Gareth Parry
• 452: STANDARDIZATION AND IMPROVEMENT IN PEDIATRIC CELIAC CARE (22 October, 2015) Free

  Brendan Boyle, Tracy Ediger, Anne Trout, Neal Wegener, Sandhya Ramachandran, Mike Cummings, Stephanie Reber, Ivor Hill
• 455: IMPROVING COMMUNICATION DURING CARDIAC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT MULTIDISCIPLINARY ROUNDS THROUGH VISUAL DISPLAY OF PATIENT DAILY GOALS (22 October, 2015) Free

  Lindsey Justice, David Cooper, Carla Henderson, James Brown, Katie Simon, Lindsey Clark, Elizabeth Fleckenstein, Alexis Ramby, David Nelson
• 463: CAN ORGANISATIONAL RESTRUCTURING OF HOSPITALS IMPROVE QUALITY AND SAFETY? THE EXPERIENCE AT SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS NETWORK (22 October, 2015) Free

  Glen Farrow
• 470: USE OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (QI) METHODOLOGY TO DECREASE LENGTH OF STAY (LOS) FOR NEWBORNS WITH UNCOMPLICATED GASTROSCHISIS (22 October, 2015) Free

  Rick McClead, Gregory Ryshen, James Dail, Mary Gossard, Molly Dienhart, Jennifer Aldrink
• 471: UNDERSTANDING VARIATION IN SUCCESS IN A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA. (22 October, 2015) Free

  Gary Groot, Linda McMullen, Jessica Hamilton, Laura Schwartz
• 501: REDUCING LABORATORY TESTING IN A TERTIARY MEDICAL CENTRE: A RESIDENT-LED MULTILEVEL QUALITY INTERVENTION (22 October, 2015) Free

  Matilda Xw Lee, Clarice Choong, Winnie ZY Teo, Kristie HR Fan, Lye Heng Lim, Lizhen Ong, Sharon Saw, Tow-Keang Lim, Amelia Santosa, Manjari Lahiri
• 524: TRANSFORMING A CANADIAN MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY: LABORATORY AUTOMATION AND LEAN PROCESSES REDUCE ERRORS, IMPROVE STANDARDIZATION AND RESULT QUALITY WHILE IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY (22 October, 2015) Free

  Norma Page
• 528: INCREASING TRICHOMONAS TESTING IN THE PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (22 October, 2015) Free

  Kristin Stukus, Timothy Cripe, Daniel Cohen, Farah Craig, Laura Sawicki, Lindsey Weisbecker, Jessica Hollar, Kelli Kurtovic, Don Buckingham
• 534: USING EHR DATA TO DYNAMICALLY PREDICT INCIDENCE OF HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED PRESSURE ULCERS (22 October, 2015) Free

  William Padula, Tony Ursitti, Laura Ruth Venable, Adam Ginensky, Mary Beth Makic, Heidi Wald, Manish Mishra, Robert Valuck, Donald Hedeker, Robert Gibbons, David Meltzer
• 546: QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF A LEARNING COLLABORATIVE TO IMPROVE PUBLIC PRESCHOOL QUALITY AND CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE OUTCOMES IN CHILE (22 October, 2015) Free

  MaryCatherine Arbour, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sidney Atwood, Francis Romina Duran, Felipe Godoy, Ernesto Trevino, Catherine E Snow
• 554: IMPROVING CARE FOR PEDIATRIC URINARY TRACT INFECTION: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IMPLEMENTATION OF A CLINICAL PATHWAY AND PRESCRIBING PATTERNS IN THE ED (22 October, 2015) Free

  Derya Caglar, Nicole Poole, Russ Migita, Matthew Kronman, Danielle Zerr, Lori Rutman
• 560: IDENTIFYING ACTIONABLE INFORMATION: PREVENTABLE 30-DAY NEUROSURGICAL READMISSIONS. (22 October, 2015) Free

  Maxwell Laurans, Evgeniya Tyrtova, Melani Semlow
• 562: REDUCING THE INCIDENCE OF CLABSI IN LATIN AMERICAN ICUS: A MULTI-COUNTRY QUALITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE. PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE SECOND PHASE (22 October, 2015) Free

  Jafet Arrieta, Pedro Delgado, Carola Orrego, Carolina Giuffre, Viviana Rodríguez, Ezequiel García Elorrio
• 576: “COMPREHENSIVE CARE MODEL” FOR DIABETES WITHIN A PRIMARY CARE CLINIC: PRE-VISIT PLANNING, AT-VISIT EFFICIENCY, AND INTER-VISIT CARE (22 October, 2015) Free

  Jaishree Hariharan, Gary Fischer, Debbie Simak
• 579: IDENTIFYING PRIORITIES FOR IMPROVED CHILD HEALTHCARE: A MIXED METHODS ANALYSIS OF SAFETY INCIDENT REPORTS (22 October, 2015) Free

  Philippa Rees, Adrian Edwards, Colin Powell, Huw Williams, Peter Hibbert, Meredith Makeham, Donna Luff, Gareth Parry, Aziz Sheikh, Liam Donaldson, Andrew Carson-Stevens
• 585: REDUCING INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE IN A LEVEL III NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (22 October, 2015) Free

  Lori Christ, Jessica Barber, Ashley Murray, Melissa Dunleavy, Jason Stoller, Dalal Taha, Loretta Brown-Jackson, Meredith McElroy, Michael Posencheg
• 588: VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND THEIR CARE QUALITY ISSUES: A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF A NATIONAL DATABASE (22 October, 2015) Free

  Adhnan Omar, Philippa Rees, Huw Prosser Evans, Huw Williams, Alison Cooper, Sophie Banerjee, Peter Hibbert, Meredith Makeham, Gareth Parry, Liam Donaldson, Adrian Edwards, Andrew Carson-Stevens
• 591: PEDIATRIC CATHETER ASSOCIATED URINARY TRACT INFECTION REDUCTION – AN ACHIEVABLE GOAL (22 October, 2015) Free

  Mike Fetzer, Rhonda Humphrey, Stephanie Stack-Simone, Linda Stoverock, Jonathan Groner
• 589: PREDICTING OUTCOME MEASURE PERFORMANCE THROUGH MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (22 October, 2015) Free

  Richard Scoville, Manwai Ng, Gareth Parry, Abiola Faniyan, Adam Richman, Arthur Evans
• 624: MORTALITY REDUCTION ASSOCIATED WITH PROACTIVE USE OF EMR-BASED ACUITY SCORE BY AN RN TEAM AT AN URBAN HOSPITAL (22 October, 2015) Free

  Michael Rothman, Joan Rimar, Sheila Coonan, Stephen Allegretto, Thomas Balcezak
• 626: TRAVELLING WITH THE SYSTEMS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT MODEL IN LACS HEALTH DISTRICT IN TOGO TO REDUCE TUBERCULOSIS DEATHS (22 October, 2015) Free

  Kossivi Afanvi, Yao Kassankogno, Koumavi Ekouevi
• 634: IMPROVING HANDOFFS BETWEEN TRIAGE AND LABOR AND DELIVERY AT A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: A PILOT STUDY (22 October, 2015) Free

  Alyssa Colwill, Daniel Lee, Kate O'Rourke, April Romanos, Joseph Teel, Sindhu Srinivas.
• 636: COMMUNITY COLLABORATION IMPROVES CARE AND REDUCES REHOSPITALIZATIONS FOR HEART FAILURE PATIENTS (22 October, 2015) Free

  Christine Thompson, Charlene Kell, Dipanjan Banerjee
• 639: REDUCING SERIOUS HARM FOR PEDIATRIC CARDIAC INPATIENTS AT A LARGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (22 October, 2015) Free

  David Cooper, Jean Storey, Laurie Mustin, Jeffrey Anderson, Sam Hanke, Katie Clarke-Meyers, James Brown, Katie Simon, Thomas Kimball
• 642: IMPROVING THE TRANSFER OF MEDICALLY COMPLEX PATIENTS FROM THE CARDIAC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT TO THE CARDIOLOGY INPATIENT WARD (22 October, 2015) Free

  Jean Storey, Laurie Mustin, Nicolas Madsen, Melissa Kimball, Gina Schoenling, James Brown, Jonathan Byrnes, David Cooper
• 644: COLLABORATIVE IMPROVEMENT AND INNOVATION NETWORK: INCREASING CAPACITY OF DATA SYSTEMS TO HELP SAVE BABIES' LIVES (22 October, 2015) Free

  Sabrina Selk, Patricia Finnerty, Elaine Fitzgerald, Zandra Levesque, Jane Taylor
• 645: ARE IMPROVEMENT OUTCOMES SUSTAINABLE WITHIN A DYNAMIC CLINICAL ENVIRONMENT? (22 October, 2015) Free

  Emily Sterrett, Eileen Murtagh Kurowski, Richard Ruddy, Terri Byczkowski
• 649: CREATING CULTURES OF SAFETY: PARADOXICAL EFFECTS OF IDENTICAL SAFETY CULTURE INTERVENTIONS ON INPATIENT HOSPITAL UNITS (22 October, 2015) Free

  Howard Chiou