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Presented here is the 2010 Silverman Symposium Improvement Project Poster Collection. The Symposium, sponsored annually by the Silverman Institute for Health Care Quality and Safety, celebrates BIDMC's on-going efforts to improve quality and safety throughout the medical center each and every day. This year, approximately 95 Project Teams participated in the poster session. Learn more about our efforts in specific areas by viewing any of the PDF documents in this collection. Click here to view the 2011 Poster Collection, 2009 Poster Collection or the 2008 Poster Collection.
A Perfect Match-ID Banding On Shapiro 8 Achieving 100% Credentialed Clinical Instructors Achieving Excellence Through Workforce Development Addressing Pain And Stiffness An Educational Intervention To Promote Bone Health In High-Risk Patients An Evidence-Based Approach To Patient Hand-Offs An Inpatient Psychiatry Quality Metric Automated Nursing Care Plan BIDMC Nursing Practice - State Of The State Creating A Unit-Specific Web Portal on Stoneman 5 Creation Of A Measurable Daily Assessment Tool For Indwelling Urinary Catheter CRICO Risk Management Foundation ED Consultation Decreasing Urinary Tract Infections In Interventional Cardiology Educating ICU Nurses On Prismaflex & CRRT Geriatric Care Addressing Urinary Incontinence Geriatric Care Falls Screening Grateful Nation HIV Quality Of Care Assessment Impact Of Hospital Guidelines On Argatroban Use In Patients Implementing The BMT Orientation Program For New Grads Improving Adherence To Heart Failure Guidelines Improving Adherence To Asplenia Guidelines Improving Adherence To Diabetes Care Guidelines Improving Antibiotic Timing In The Operating Room Improving Compliance With Diabetes Care Guidelines Improving Follow-up Care For Patients With Mild TBI Improving Renal Patient Monitoring Interdisciplinary QI Retreat Hosp-Home-Clinic Transition Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency of Clinical Event Response Intrathecal Opioids For Post Op Pain Mgmt Lean Leadership Training LEAN Standardization For Gastric Emptying Studies Long-Term Outcome In Patients With Normal Cardiac Perfusion Tests MRI For Further Evaluation Of C Spine In The Setting Of Trauma Do We Really Need It? Preventing Avoidable Re-Hospitalizations QI Retreat: Lean Value Stream Mapping And Analysis Quality Assurance Assessment Of Breast MRI Radiation Oncology Lean Cuisine Radiology LEAN rollout A3 Resuscitating The Emergency Cardiac Care Education Program Safety Huddles Timely Preoperative Antibiotics For Cesarean Delivery Turnaround Time For Neurological MR In The ED Using The Evidence: Pain Management In Liver Biopsy WebOMR Problem List Changes
5S For PACS Supply Closets And Storage Areas A Review Of HLA Test Systems Atrial Fibrillation Specialty Unit Building A Fundraising Team Can You Hear Me Now? Chest Disease Center Cardiac Cath Supply Chain & Procedure Work Flow Co-Scheduling - When Nurses Cross The Divide Development Of A Multidisciplinary Algorithm For Management Of Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage Discharge Documentation- Streamlining The Discharge Process ED to Inpatient Medicine Bed: Value Stream Mapping Effect Of Education & Citrate Use On Blood Loss During CRRT In Adult ICUs Improving Morning Work Rounds Lean East Feldberg CPD Renovations Lean Supply Room Redesign Lean West CPD Prep And Pack Leveling Workflow Mattress Replacement Medication Labeling New Patient Records Management - GI NICU supplies reorganization Outpatient Rehabilitation Services - Appointment Scheduling Process Parenteral Nutrition - Improving Orders In POE PAT Process Improvement Pathology Send Outs Project POE Allergy Label Design Reducing Outpatient Late Charges Reducing Radiology Late Charges Reducing Scheduling Time For I-123 Total Body Scans Surgical Hip Kit Breakdown Process Team Tracking Patients Needing Outreach Utility of Head CT In the Setting Of Non-Traumatic Altered Mental Status In the Emergency Department
Improving Employee Health Compliance Improving Ergonomics Laboratory Chemical Waster Compliance Peer Support Reducing Blood And Body Fluid Splashes In The ICU Reducing Potential Hazardous Drug Exposure Research SWAT Team Safe Patient Handling Workplace Safety In The Psychiatry Department
Consenting Adults - An Innovative Informed Consent Workshop Improved Access To HB Clinic For Patients With A Chinese Interpreter Improving Diabetes Management Through Group Medical Visits
Breast Care Individualized Care Map Cultivating Award-Winning Family-Centered Care In The ICU Family-Centeredness: One Waiting Room At A Time Research Ethics Rounds Transitioning To Patient Centered Homecare at Bowdoin
A Monitoring Tool For Detecting Harm: Global Triggers A Randomized Trial Of An Alerting System To Improve Colonoscopy Ambulatory Risk Management Pilot An Interventional Procedure-Specific Scripted Preprocedure Timeout BIDMC Inpatient Hypoglycemia Protocol Calling For Success - Improving Transitions From ED Chest Pain Triggers Cord This Be Happening Fall Prevention: Ongoing Challenges, Best Practices GRACE - Global Risk Assessment And Careplan For Elders Healthcare Associates Anticoagulation Management Service Identifying Risk For Falls Improving Communication About Aspiration Risk Improving Patients' Perioperative Temperature Control Infection Control Initiatives In Cardiac Surgery Medication Order Review In NICU Novel Hand Hygiene Program In Radiology Patient Safety Reports In The NICU Preventing Synocopal Events During Therapy Radiation Reduction On Abdominal/Pelvic CT Exams Recognizing And Responding To Beside Emergencies Reducing Risk With Intercampus Transfer Of The Critically Ill Patient Reduction of Hypoglycemia in Postoperative Cardiac Surgery Patients on Insulin Infusions Reduction Of MRSA Infection In Obstetrics Safely Discharging The Newly Diagnosed Diabetic Patient Sustaining The Gains In Glucose Control The Incidence And Cost Of Unexpected Hospital Use After Scheduled Outpatient Endoscopy Triggers In The Emergency Department
Critical Test Result: Head CT In CODE STROKE Employee Exposures - Needlesticks Improved Patient Access To Spine Procedures: A Radiology & Spine Center Collaboration Inpatient Code STEMI Neurology Telephone Mystery Shopping Research On Early Mobilization Following Stroke Sustaining Gains In Time To First Dose Antibiotics Last Updated: April 1, 2010
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