Quality Summit 2016 - Presentations

Important Dates:

Registration:
August 2

Acceptance of Abstracts:
July 6

 

For highlights of the summit, check out this storify.

Take a peek at the conference photos on Flickr; enjoy!

See our presentations and posters:

Presentations

October 24, 2016

• Keith McCandless: Liberating Structures Workshop (Keith's Stop Doing List)
• Shari McKeown: Gamification Workshop

October 25, 2016

• Nick Adkins: The Power of Connection & Digital Empathy

Morning Breakout Sessions

• Creating a Culture of Excellence – William Maples (https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/E3w0O)
  Inspiring Partnership in Action – Lona Leiren and Jessica Dollard
  Deb Runnalls & Ann Colbourne
• Christian Farrier & Deborah Thul (https://prezi.com/xvgfstv29reb/teens-talk-transition/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy)
  Phil Bobawsky & Terry Smith

Rapid Fire Presentations – Top 6 Classic Improvement Projects

• Improving the Pain Experience for Children in the Alberta Children's Emergency Department and Beyond – Jennifer Thull-Freedman
• Rockyview Hospital Induction of Labour Quality Improvement Project – Wynne Leung
• Reducing Unnecessary Coagulation Studies in Suspected Cardiac Chest Pain Patients – Shawn Dowling
• Efficacy of High-Observation Protocol (HOP) in major head and neck cancer surgery: a prospective study – Jeffrey Harris
• Alberta Rectal Cancer Initiative: Implementation of a provincial rectal cancer care pathway improves care – Donald Buie
• Brains Matter - Improving the Door to Needle Times at the University of Alberta Hospital – Mary-Lou Halabi

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

• Alex Ryan: Frame-shifting Innovation: How to Help Large Bureacracies to Think, See and Act Differently
• Marni Panas: Let’s Get Real! Candid Conversations with Patients
• Julie Schellenberg & Marlies van Dijk Crowdsourcing in Healthcare: Are we missing the boat?

Rapid Presentations - Top 6 Transforming Projects

• Improving Sexual Health in Cancer Patients: An Advanced Practice Nurse Initiative
• Specialist Link: Improving care and integration through telephone communication between primary care and gastroenterology
• Improving Care in Diagnostic Imaging
• Advance Care Planning in Cirrhosis - A Quality Improvement Project
• Impact Assessment: Obviously Apparent or Apparently Obvious?
• Stroke Care AB – Our Team Story

Posters

Transforming Improvement

Clinical Improvement

1. Clinical Improvement: Collaborating to improve Post-Treatment Transitions of Care for Albertans with Cancer
2. Evaluation Results for a Student-Led Program in Pain & Rehabilitation
3. The Development of a Care Pathway for Cystectomy Patients and NSQIP at the Rockyview General Hospital
4. Improving Patient Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction for Patients with Diabetes in Alberta Hospitals Through Improved Glycemic Management
5. Using Targeted Stakeholder Engagement to Enhance Quality in Newborn Screening
6. Aggregated Learning from Clinically Serious Adverse Events: Analysis that Contributes to Setting Organizational Priorities
7. Surgical Pharmacy Role in Medication Management on a Spine Service Unit
8. Establishing a continuous feedback system to improve patient reported outcome measures in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
9. Innovation in Redesigning Ambulatory Care for Children with Complex Airway Needs (CCAN): Tracheostomy with or without mechanical ventilation at the Alberta Children's Hospital
   (not present)
10. High Risk Screening in Day Surgery for Non-Admitted Patients
11. Physiotherapists Performing Local Anesthetic Injections for Pain Management During Wound Care Sharp Debridement
12. Risky Business: Risk Assessment and Occupational Therapy
13. Occupational Therapy Student-Led Program: Logic Model Informed Evaluation Framework
14. Improving the Quality of Clinical Services: the University of Alberta's Family Medicine Practice Quality Improvement (PQI) Residency Requirement

Creating a Culture of Quality & Safety

15. Clinical Commissioning Simulations in new healthcare environments - Making it Right
16. A New Method of Obtaining Information about the Implementation Effort and Impact of Patient Safety Recommendations
17. Boot Camp - An Innovative Way to Engage in Staff Education

Patient and Family Centered Care

18. "How would you do it without your family support?" Contributions of Families to Patient Care in Intensive Care Units and Hospital Wards
19. Engaging Patients and Families in Leading Research to Inform and Advance Patient and Family Centered Care in Critical Care
20. Gum for Mum: An Innovative Approach to Infant Fall Prevention at South Health Campus
    *Winner of Top Poster Award: Transforming Improvement Stream*
21. Alberta Home Care Client Experience Survey
22. South Health Campus Patient and Family Centered Care Check In
23. Patient Stories to Ignite Change
24. Inpatient Hospital Experience in Alberta: Reporting and Advanced Analytics to Drive Healthcare Improvement
25. Filling the void: Building a collaborative Adult Autism Spectrum Disorder Service
26. Patient Perspectives on Stroke Prevention Therapy Decisions in Atrial Fibrillation: A Qualitative Study
27. Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Drive Quality Improvement in Alberta: Improving System Effectiveness and Patient Experience
28. A Patient-Centered Discharge Approach for Overactive Bladder

Community Care and Primary Care

29. Delivering Care in the Community - The Calgary Zone Community Paramedic Program Provides Blood Transfusions for Patients in their Home
    *Winner of Top Poster Award: Transforming Improvement Stream*
30. Reducing General Internal Medicine specialty care wait times using a community based service delivery model at the East Calgary Family Care Clinic
31. Development of a Diabetes Foot Care Clinical Pathway in Alberta
32. Community Doctor Preferences for Hospital Discharge Medication Information
33. The Roles of Quality Co-Coordinators in Improving the Quality and Capacity of Primary Care Service Provision: Primary Care Health Services Data
34. BETTER WISE: A Cancer and Chronic Disease Prevention and Screening Project

Sustaining & Spreading Improvement

35. Enhancing HPV Vaccination in First Nations Populations in Alberta (EHVINA Study): Towards a Sustainable, Community-Driven, Knowledge Translation Strategy
36. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery in Alberta: Impacts of Initial Provincial Implementation to Transform Surgical Care, Supported by Alberta's Provincial Quality Engines, the Strategic Clinical Networks
37. Change Management: Journey through CoACT (Stage 1) Units 71 & 72 Rockyview General Hospital
38. Teaching and Modeling Quality Improvement and Enhanced Safety in Health Care: Quality and Safety Family Medicine Grand Rounds

Classic Improvement

Clinical Improvement

39. Head and Neck Cancer Perioperative Clinical Pathway
40. Implementation of an Operating Room (OR) Cardiac Device Checklist to Decrease the Risk of Implantable Cardioverter Device (ICD) and Pacemaker (PPM) Surgical Site Infection (SSI)
41. MRI Inpatient & Emergency Triage - Right Patient, Right Time
42. Iterative development of an Intensive Pain Rehabilitation Program at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, with resultant impact on the patient, family, community and system.
43. Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter Line and its Associated Discharges Delays (not present)
44. Standardizing the Care of COPD Patients in Acute Care
45. Prep, Scope, Recovery, Repeat: A Move Toward Standardized Quality Patient Care Delivery for Endoscopy Patients in the Edmonton Zone
46. Characterizing Inpatient Diabetes Mellitus Management on Medical Teaching Units
47. The GO Project: Glycemic Optimization through interdisciplinary collaboration
48. The Power of Positive Linking: Keeping Seniors Safe by Improving Patient Handovers
49. Pharmacist Satisfaction with an Electronic Clinical Documentation Template
50. A clinical decision support intervention to increase usage of Probenecid in the ED
51. Multidisciplinary Care in Cirrhosis Improves Patient Survival
    *Winner of Top Poster Award: Classic Improvement Stream*
52. Alcohol-Based Hand Rub Safety Guidelines at AHS
53. A Collaborative Team's Approach to Standardizing Discharge Processes
54. Standardization of discharge analgesic orders for post-operative pain management in the community for patients undergoing total joint replacement at SHC

Creating a Culture of Quality & Safety

55. Quality and Safer Health Services in Health Systems: Family Medicine Educational Requirements at the University of Alberta
56. Unit 26 Waste Reduction Project
57. Potential Blood/Body Fluid Exposure (BBFE) during Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) Leading to a Probe Leak Testing Protocol as a Quality Improvement
58. Inhaler distribution optimization
59. Patient Safety-‘Name Alert with Two Patient Identification’– Royal Alexandra Hospital Ophthalmology Eye Clinic
60. Royal Alexandra Hospital Ophthalmology - Patient Care Unit 22 - 6S Improvement
61. Consensus Review of Optimal Perioperative Care in Breast Reconstruction: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Recommendations
62. Optimizing Blood Inventory in Northern Alberta Hospitals
63. Clean and Green: A multidisciplinary initiative to reduce patient supply waste and improve environmental cleaning capabilities
64. Collaboration Leads to Improved Medication Information for Rural Emergency Department Patients (not present)
65. Pharmacy Role in the Emergency Department at Two Urban Acute Care Sites
66. Consensus Review of Optimal Perioperative Care in Major Head and Neck Cancer Surgery with Free Flap Reconstruction: Enhancing Recovery After Surgery ERAS Society Recommendations

Patient and Family Centered Care

67. Restructuring Care Teams within a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
68. Enhancing Family Centered Care: The Implementation of the HealthChange Methodology into an Early Intervention Pediatric Program
69. The Art Walk - A Patient, Family and Staff Collaboration to Improve the Healing Environment Through Intentional Use of Art in the Tom Baker Cancer Centre
70. Timing of Sedation and Patient Comfort for Screening Colonoscopy Procedures
71. Alberta Children's Hospital Emergency Department Waiting Room and Triage project: the value of "Going to Gemba" to understand the family experience
72. Enhancing the Patient Meal Experience for Neuro Rehab Patients
    *Winner of Top Poster Award: Classic Improvement Stream*
73. Patient Experience and the Physical Environment

Community Care and Primary Care

74. Integration of the Primary Care Network into the Community Ultrasound Referral Process for the Reduction of Repeat Visits to the Rockyview Emergency Department

Sustaining & Spreading Improvement

75. Implementation and Evaluation of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program with Hospitalist Physicians at FMC
76. Occupational Therapy in Emergency Department - Update from RGH
77. Sustaining Change after Initiative Rollout - Cardiac Cath Lab Central Referral
78. Improving Platelet Utilization in a Rural Setting
79. The Transdisciplinary Model: A Continuous Quality Re-Model of Therapy Services
80. Acceptance and Utilization of Drugs & Therapeutic Backgrounders and Antimicrobial Stewardship Backgrounders in clinical practice