Academy for Healthcare Improvement

2009 Posters and Presenters

Abstracts of Oral Presenters and Posters for 2009

The abstracts presented each year since 1998 are available in the Scientific Symposium Archive

International Scientific Symposium

The goals of the Scientific Symposium are

• To encourage, accelerate, and improve the science of continuous improvement in health care and health professions education.
• To provide a forum in which investigators from around the world can introduce new work for peer review and discussion on the science of improving healthcare and health professions education.

State-of-the-art work in health services delivery and health professions education will be highlighted in rapid-fire presentations. Papers are competitively selected through peer-review. For each, a ten-minute presentation will be followed by ten minutes of discussion, moderated by international health care leaders. Additional highly rated papers will be invited for poster presentations. Previous Symposia have featured work in geriatric team care, reduced antibiotic prescribing, diabetes care, electronic reporting and patient safety, errors in medication/prescribing, access and quality, urgent care outcomes, reducing prescription costs for indigent patients, crew training, and system improvement.

The abstracts presented each year since 1998 are available at http://a4hi.org

The National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care

The Academy for Healthcare Improvement is pleased to sponsor the Scientific Symposium in partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as part of the National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. The National Forum is a premier conference on improvement in health care, attracting thousands of health care professionals from around the world. Through workshops, plenary sessions and special interest meetings, the National Forum will showcase leading edge theory from improvement experts as well as real-life case studies of successful improvement efforts in health care organizations.

The 21st Annual National Forum was held December 6-9, 2009 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The 15th Annual International Scientific Symposium was held on December 7, 2009, as part of the Forum.

For More Information

For further information regarding abstract selection and presentation, please contact the Scientific Symposium conference office at the Office of Continuing Medical Education, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212 (email: RentfroA@health.missouri.edu); conference co-chair Linda Headrick, M.D., M.S. (email: HeadrickL@health.missouri.edu).

For information regarding the National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, including conference registration, see the web site: http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/ConferencesAndSeminars/21stNationalForumonQualityImprovement.htm or contact the Institute for Healthcare Improvement at (617) 301-4800, or toll-free at (866) 787-0831.