Identifying Barriers and Solutions to Reduce Door-to-Ballon Times: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Michelle Fennessy, RN, Bill Borden, MD; Bob Mullikem, MD; Jennifer O’Grady, RN; Thea Wells, RN; Sheba Greer, RN; Jerlyn Nichols, RN; Carol Floreza, RN; John Lopez, MD

Reducing Delays in Administration of Antibiotic Therapy for Febrile Neutropenic Oncology Patients

Sally Black

Protecting the Dialysis Patient's Lifeline:  Development and Implementation of a Master Cannulator Program

Anthony McCullom, PCT;Johhnie Mitchell PCT; Adrian Priester-Coary, RN;

Evaluation of an Electronic System for Initiating Contact Precautions

Emily Mawdsley, MD; Sylvia Garcia-Houchins, CIC; Elizabeth Stutler, MPH; Judith Bova, CIC; Lauren Porrevecchio-Mihalik, MT; Jocelyn Tolentino, MPH; Stephen Weber, MD

Improve Pain Satisfaction with Implementation of High Dose Patient Controlled Analgesia

Mary Ann Francisco, RN, APN; Christen Mortenson, RN; Chynna Townsend, RN; Jeannine Nosko, RN; Mary Maroney, RN; Denise Vasquez, RN;  LaTanya Kennedy, RN,  APN;  Nicole Artz, MD; Craig Kwiatkowski, RPh, PharmD; Sibyl Yau, RN, MSN; Constance Wright, RN, MS;  Sally Szumlas, RN, MS, CPHQ

It's Just Good Medicine:  Improvements in the Adult Inpatient Vaccination Program

Elmer Abbo, MD; Sally Szumlas, RN, MS, CPHQ; Chad Whelan, MD

A Department Wide Effort to Gather Quality Metrics as Part of the Routine Billing Process

Andrew Davis, MD; Joel Roth;  Shefali Patel; Catherine Du Beau, MD; Catherine Ostapina; Lisa Vinci, MD

Quality of Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Care in Hospitalized Vulnerable Elders:  The Need to Improve Physician and Nurse Collaboration

Diane Doeing, MD; Greg Sachs, MD;  David Meltzer, MD, PhD; Vineet Arora, MD

Improving the Medication Refill Process in the Primary Care Group

Bridget O'Brien, MD; Laura Freilich, MD;  Salil Ginde, MD; Flavia Lega, MD; Adam Price, MD;  Tojo Thomas, MD;  John Yoon, MD

Sustainability of a Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve Obesity Management in the Outpatient Setting: Lessons learned from the BMI Collaborative

Keith Naylor, Neda Laiteerapong, Lisa Vinci, Vineet Arora

Evaluation of an Urban Home Palliative Care Program: Palliative Access Through Care at Home (PATCH)

Abgail Holley, Dean Cox-Haley, William Dale, Josh Hammerich, Rita Gorawara-Bhat

Systematic Review: Beers Critieria, Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in the Acute Ill Elderly

Ernest Vina, David Rhew, John Chang

Improvement in Medicine-Pediatric Residents Ambulatory Training and Patient Outcomes

Sara Platte, Kim Tartaglia, Catherine Glunz, Vineet Arora, Rita Rossi-Foulkes

Does a Prior History of Medication Associated Angiodema or Anaphylaxis Remain Salient in Subsequent Medical Records?

Kevin Thomas, David Harriman, Shahidah Parveen, Andrew Davis

Pressure Ulcer Prevention Initiative

Chris Baker

Cardioversions: The Shocking Truth

Brad Knight, Roberto Lang, Michele Ruhnke, Daine Walford, Maureen Gagen, James Warnecke

Computer Tomography (CT) Emergency Department ED Services Improvement

Monica Geyer

Under-Treatment of Tobacco Dependence in Hospitalized Adults

BD Stein, A Bautista, GT Schumock, Lisa Shah, JA Krishnan

Identifying Cases for Education and Quality Improvement Purposes

Elmer Abbo, David Lovinger, Nancy Perovic, Amanda Schmitz, Chad Whelan

Decreasing Central Line Related Blood Steam Infections in Hematology/Oncology patients in the Oncology Care Center

Jan Beschorner, Susan Cienkus, Sylvia Garcia-Houchins, Ruth Lamour, Lantonya Macklin, Sheila Miller, Sandy Tuazon

Eveidence based Improvements in the Safety and Effectiveness of Cardiac Monitoring and Alarm Notification System

Sally Szumlas, Mary Ann Francisco, mary Maroney, Laura Bildstein

Improving Resident Ability to Provide Social Support Resources to their Clinic Patients

Jonathan Birnberg, Shira Tropp, S Takahashi, Sara Bares, Mo Ling, Nita Gera, Heidi Baumert