Academy for Healthcare Improvement

2008 Posters and Presenters

List of Oral Presenters for 2008 (Excel)

List of Posters for 2008 (Excel)

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

About the 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 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 20th Annual National Forum will be held December 10-11 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The 14th Annual International Scientific Symposium will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 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 University of Missouri, School of Medicine, 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/19thNationalForumonQualityImprovement.htm or contact the Institute for Healthcare Improvement at (617) 301-4800, or toll-free at (866) 787-0831.