Stanford's Inaugural Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Symposium

Stanford's Inaugural Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Symposium focuses on research projects from all over the Stanford Hospital and Stanford's Children Hospital with the key goal of sharing research in patient care and patient care quality. This event was held on Monday, June 8, 2015 at 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm in Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC).

Dr. Laurence Katznelson, Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education and Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Neurosurgery hosted this event.

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Below are the award winners for the Top 10 Posters of the symposium:

Abstract Title	Authors & Departments
Survival and Neurological Outcomes of Cardiac Arrests at a University-Affiliated Veterans Affairs Health Care System	Felipe D. Perez, MD1*;Steven K. Howard, MD2,3; Robert E. King, MS2; Edward R. Mariano, MD, MAS (Clinical Research)2,3; Geoffrey Lighthall, MD, PhD2,3; T. Kyle Harrison, MD2,3 1 Resident, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Transitional Program; 2 Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System; 3 Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Improving Diabetes Care and Population Health Training in an Internal Medicine Resident Clinic	Anuradha Phadke MD*, Nazima Allaudeen MD, Nicole Grant MD, and Steven M. Asch MD MPH Department of Internal Medicine
Improving the Quality of Mammographic Positioning to Detect Breast Cancer	Christina Chen*, Audrey Strain, Jake Mickelsen, David Larson, Robert Jesinger, Daniele Botelho, Sandra Fromholz, Chrystal Obi, Alexis Crawley, Jafi Lipson, Debra Ikeda, Claudia Cooper, Sunita Pal Department of Radiology
Obtaining complete, pertinent clinical histories for radiographic examinations, a pilot project	Benjamin Johnson*, Angela Fast, Anita Angelotti, Jake Mickelsen, Geoffrey Riley, David Larson Department of Radiology
Building a Clinical Effectiveness Program at LPCH: Establishing a Prototype Clinical Pathway	Claudia A. Algaze*, Catherine D. Krawczeski, Andrew Y. Shin, Chealsea Nather, Chandra Ramamoorthy, Komal Kamra, Alaina Kipps, Vamsi Yarlagadda, Marcy Lamonica, Monica Mafla, Krisa Elgin, Juanita Hickman, Tanushree Vashist, Paul Sharek Department: Pediatrics, Division: Cardiology and the Center for Quality and Clinical Effectiveness
Covert Observations, Auditing, and Videos: A Multi-faceted Approach to Improving Hand Hygiene Adherence at LPCH	Kaitlyn Phuong Le, MD*, Lauren Destino, MD, Dianne Laumann, RN, MBA, PMP, Terry Platchek, MD, and Amit Singh, MD Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine; Center for Quality & Clinical Effectiveness
The Golden Ticket Project: A Pilot Program in Resident Peer Recognition	Valerie Gribben, MD*, Laura Bachrach, MD, Alyssa Bogetz, MSW, Rebecca Blankenburg, MD, MPH Department of Pediatrics
Reducing functional MRI scan times by optimizing workflow	Wilson B. Chwang*, Michael Iv, Darryl Costales, Jason Smith, Teresa Nelson, Aleksandrs Kalnins, Jake Mickelsen, Roland Bammer, Dominik Fleischmann, David B. Larson, Max Wintermark, and Michael Zeineh Department of Radiology
Integrating NIMH PROMIS Measures on Stanford’s Primary Care Clinics	Steven Sust MD*, Shashank Joshi MD, Kyle Hinman MD, Antonio Hardan MD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Intraoperative medication safety - Exploring strategies to minimize medication waste and improve safety	Shara Cohn, Amanda Kumar, Jed Cohn, Brita Mittal, Christina Stachur, Louise Wen, Clair Secomb, Ruth Fanning Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine; Stanford School of Medicine