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Process Improvements at BIDMC - 2010

2010 Quality and Safety Improvements at Work

Presented here is the 2010 Silverman Symposium Improvement Project Poster Collection. The Symposium, sponsored annually by the Silverman Institute for Health Care Quality and Safety, celebrates BIDMC's on-going efforts to improve quality and safety throughout the medical center each and every day. This year, approximately 95 Project Teams participated in the poster session.

Learn more about our efforts in specific areas by viewing any of the PDF documents in this collection.  Click here to view the 2011 Poster Collection, 2009 Poster Collection or the 2008 Poster Collection.

Effectiveness

A Perfect Match-ID Banding On Shapiro 8 
Achieving 100% Credentialed Clinical Instructors 
Achieving Excellence Through Workforce Development
Addressing Pain And Stiffness
An Educational Intervention To Promote Bone Health In High-Risk Patients
An Evidence-Based Approach To Patient Hand-Offs
An Inpatient Psychiatry Quality Metric
Automated Nursing Care Plan 
BIDMC Nursing Practice - State Of The State
Creating A Unit-Specific Web Portal on Stoneman 5
Creation Of A Measurable Daily Assessment Tool For Indwelling Urinary Catheter
CRICO Risk Management Foundation ED Consultation
Decreasing Urinary Tract Infections In Interventional Cardiology
Educating ICU Nurses On Prismaflex & CRRT
Geriatric Care Addressing Urinary Incontinence
Geriatric Care Falls Screening 
Grateful Nation
HIV Quality Of Care Assessment 
Impact Of Hospital Guidelines On Argatroban Use In Patients 
Implementing The BMT Orientation Program For New Grads 
Improving Adherence To Heart Failure Guidelines 
Improving Adherence To Asplenia Guidelines 
Improving Adherence To Diabetes Care Guidelines 
Improving Antibiotic Timing In The Operating Room
Improving Compliance With Diabetes Care Guidelines 
Improving Follow-up Care For Patients With Mild TBI
Improving Renal Patient Monitoring 
Interdisciplinary QI Retreat Hosp-Home-Clinic Transition
Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency of Clinical Event Response
Intrathecal Opioids For Post Op Pain Mgmt 
Lean Leadership Training 
LEAN Standardization For Gastric Emptying Studies
Long-Term Outcome In Patients With Normal Cardiac Perfusion Tests
MRI For Further Evaluation Of C Spine In The Setting Of Trauma Do We Really Need It?
Preventing Avoidable Re-Hospitalizations 
QI Retreat: Lean Value Stream Mapping And Analysis 
Quality Assurance Assessment Of Breast MRI 
Radiation Oncology Lean Cuisine
Radiology LEAN rollout A3 
Resuscitating The Emergency Cardiac Care Education Program
Safety Huddles 
Timely Preoperative Antibiotics For Cesarean Delivery 
Turnaround Time For Neurological MR In The ED 
Using The Evidence: Pain Management In Liver Biopsy
WebOMR Problem List Changes

Efficiency

5S For PACS Supply Closets And Storage Areas 
A Review Of HLA Test Systems
Atrial Fibrillation Specialty Unit
Building A Fundraising Team 
Can You Hear Me Now? Chest Disease Center
Cardiac Cath Supply Chain & Procedure Work Flow
Co-Scheduling - When Nurses Cross The Divide 
Development Of A Multidisciplinary Algorithm For Management Of Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage 
Discharge Documentation- Streamlining The Discharge Process
ED to Inpatient Medicine Bed: Value Stream Mapping 
Effect Of Education & Citrate Use On Blood Loss During CRRT In Adult ICUs
Improving Morning Work Rounds 
Lean East Feldberg CPD Renovations
Lean Supply Room Redesign 
Lean West CPD Prep And Pack 
Leveling Workflow 
Mattress Replacement
Medication Labeling
New Patient Records Management - GI 
NICU supplies reorganization 
Outpatient Rehabilitation Services - Appointment Scheduling Process
Parenteral Nutrition - Improving Orders In POE
PAT Process Improvement
Pathology Send Outs Project
POE Allergy Label Design
Reducing Outpatient Late Charges 
Reducing Radiology Late Charges
Reducing Scheduling Time For I-123 Total Body Scans
Surgical Hip Kit Breakdown Process Team
Tracking Patients Needing Outreach
Utility of Head CT In the Setting Of Non-Traumatic Altered Mental Status In the Emergency Department

Employee Safety

Improving Employee Health Compliance
Improving Ergonomics
Laboratory Chemical Waster Compliance
Peer Support 
Reducing Blood And Body Fluid Splashes In The ICU
Reducing Potential Hazardous Drug Exposure
Research SWAT Team 
Safe Patient Handling
Workplace Safety In The Psychiatry Department

Equitable Care

Consenting Adults - An Innovative Informed Consent Workshop 
Improved Access To HB Clinic For Patients With A Chinese Interpreter 
Improving Diabetes Management Through Group Medical Visits

Patient Centered

Breast Care Individualized Care Map
Cultivating Award-Winning Family-Centered Care In The ICU 
Family-Centeredness: One Waiting Room At A Time
Research Ethics Rounds 
Transitioning To Patient Centered Homecare at Bowdoin

Patient Safety

A Monitoring Tool For Detecting Harm: Global Triggers
A Randomized Trial Of An Alerting System To Improve Colonoscopy
Ambulatory Risk Management Pilot
An Interventional Procedure-Specific Scripted Preprocedure Timeout
BIDMC Inpatient Hypoglycemia Protocol 
Calling For Success - Improving Transitions From ED
Chest Pain Triggers
Cord This Be Happening
Fall Prevention: Ongoing Challenges, Best Practices 
GRACE - Global Risk Assessment And Careplan For Elders 
Healthcare Associates Anticoagulation Management Service
Identifying Risk For Falls 
Improving Communication About Aspiration Risk
Improving Patients' Perioperative Temperature Control
Infection Control Initiatives In Cardiac Surgery
Medication Order Review In NICU 
Novel Hand Hygiene Program In Radiology 
Patient Safety Reports In The NICU 
Preventing Synocopal Events During Therapy 
Radiation Reduction On Abdominal/Pelvic CT Exams 
Recognizing And Responding To Beside Emergencies 
Reducing Risk With Intercampus Transfer Of The Critically Ill Patient
Reduction of Hypoglycemia in Postoperative Cardiac Surgery Patients on Insulin Infusions 
Reduction Of MRSA Infection In Obstetrics
Safely Discharging The Newly Diagnosed Diabetic Patient 
Sustaining The Gains In Glucose Control
The Incidence And Cost Of Unexpected Hospital Use After Scheduled Outpatient Endoscopy
Triggers In The Emergency Department

Timeliness

Critical Test Result: Head CT In CODE STROKE 
Employee Exposures - Needlesticks 
Improved Patient Access To Spine Procedures: A Radiology & Spine Center Collaboration
Inpatient Code STEMI
Neurology Telephone Mystery Shopping
Research On Early Mobilization Following Stroke 
Sustaining Gains In Time To First Dose Antibiotics

Last Updated:  April 1, 2010

Contact Information

Silverman Institute for Health Care Quality and Safety
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
330 Brookline Ave
Boston, MA 02215
617-667-1325