M1: International Improvement Research Symposium
09:00 – 17:00
The International Improvement Research Symposium aims to connect researchers and healthcare professionals who are at the frontline of implementing evidence-based improvement interventions.
09:00 – 09:30 Introduction
09:30 – 10:30 Keynote Presentation: Improvement science in stormy and uncharted waters: what can we learn from complexity
theory?
Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Sciences, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
11:00 – 12:30 Selected abstract presentations (20 mins presentation, 30 mins discussion)
- The Patient Safety Collaborative Evaluation Study (The PiSCES Study) – Rob Bethune, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
- Understanding the influences on successful quality improvement in emergency general surgery: learning from a mixed-methods evaluation of the Chole-QuIC project – Tim Stephens, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group, Queen Mary University of London
- Longitudinal follow-up of safety culture in operating theatres post implementation of the WHO’s Surgical Safety Checklist – Arvid Steinar Haugen, Haukeland University Hospital
13:30 – 15:00 Interactive poster session
A series of hosted round table conversations themed around the frontiers of improvement science. This will include selected poster presentations and other topics – 2 presenters per table.
- Can minimum nurse-to-patient ratios reduce patient mortality in acute care hospitals: A cohort study – Christian Rochefort, University of Sherbrooke
- Taking time to care: a meta-narrative of the experience for the parent of a child with Intellectual Disability in hospital – Laurel Mimmo, Sydney Children’s Hospital/University of NSW
- How can the strategy to improve long term health outcomes of importance to patients be implemented in clinical practice? – Helena Ogink, Sahlgrenska university hospital
- Frameworks to maximise effective intervention sustainability in a hospital setting – a systematic review – Julie Cowie, University of Stirling
- Quality management of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention and Control by healthcare workers to limit antibiotic resistance in hospitals – Julia Keizer, University of Twente
- SPC Traffic Lights: Stop on Green and Go on Red – Helen Ganley, Royal North Shore Hospital
15:30 – 17:00 Keynote Presentation: The intersection between improvement and implementation
Rohit Ramaswamy, Professor, Public health leadership programme, Gillings School of Global Public Health