Home      |      Get Flash Player      |      Purchase CD ROMS      |      Tech Support      |      Enter Drawing To Win Free Usage Sponsored by the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group. Co-sponsored by the American Heart Association’s Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Nursing and Stroke. Required Plug-Ins   Search this Specialty Conference:     Search all Specialty Conferences:     9th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Sorts: Sort by Date | Sort by Presentation Title | Sort by Speaker Name   Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Dinner and Keynote Presentation Building a Successful US Healthcare System: What Can You Do? Robert H Brook, MD, ScD, FACP - 18:00:00 (0h 49m 38s) - - View   Thursday, May 1, 2008 Assessing the Quality of Cardiovascular Imaging Assessing the Quality of Cardiovascular Imaging Michael S Lauer, MD, FACC, FAHA - 15:30:00 (0h 20m 2s) - - View Imaging in the Asymptomatic Patient: Working Within The Quality Continuum COL Allen J Taylor, MD, FACC - 15:30:00 (0h 22m 13s) - - View Is there clinical benefit from cardiac imaging? Symptomatic Patient Daniel Berman - 15:30:00 (0h 20m 4s) - - View Comparative Effectiveness – Friend or Foe to Health Care? Comparative Effectiveness and Health Care System Transformation Carolyn M Clancy, MD - 13:30:00 (0h 17m 13s) - - View Technology Assessment: Where are we? Where do we need to go? Ezekiel J Emanuel, MD, PhD - 13:30:00 (0h 45m 49s) - - View Developing Comparative Effectiveness Information Gail R Wilensky, PhD - 13:30:00 (0h 25m 19s) - - View Evidenced-based QI and Knowledge Translation – Barriers and Solutions to the Implementation of QI Planned approaches to improving quality Jeremy Grimshaw, MBChB, PhD, FRCGP - 10:30:00 (0h 46m 19s) - - View UCLA Stroke Protect Program - The Detroit Experience Ramesh Madhavan, MD - 10:30:00 (0h 17m 21s) - - View Evidence Based QI and Knowledge Translation – Barriers and Solutions to the Implementation of QI Sandeep Sachdeva, MD, FAHA, FACP - 10:30:00 (0h 21m 18s) - - View Innovations in Quality with a Business Perspective Innovations in Quality: The Efficiency Imperative Thomas H Lee, MD - 8:30:00 (0h 29m 3s) - - View The Clinical Transformation of Ascension Health David B Pryor, MD - 8:30:00 (1h 9m 13s) - - View Oral Abstracts - The Latest Science in Understanding the Outcomes of Patients with Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Placement and Clinical Appropriateness by Race/Ethnicity and Gender Nakela Cook - 10:30:00 (0h 19m 32s) - - View Eligibility and Use of Evidence-Based Therapies as a Function of Risk in Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure Pamela N Peterson - 10:30:00 (0h 14m 41s) - - View Increased Tissue Plasminogen Activator Use in Maryland Occurred During Preparation for Stroke Center Designation John Young - 10:30:00 (0h 10m 19s) - - View Characteristics and Outcomes of Inpatients with Elevated Troponins but Without an Acute Coronary Syndrome in 9 Veterans Affairs Hospitals: A Prospective Multicenter Study Greg C Larsen - 10:30:00 (0h 21m 22s) - - View Hospital Volume and 30-day Mortality following Hospitalization for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure Joseph S Ross - 10:30:00 (0h 14m 58s) - - View Change in Seattle Angina Questionnaire Scores in the COURAGE Trial: An Analysis by Baseline Terciles Paul Kolm - 15:30:00 (0h 16m 27s) - - View The Impact Of Dyspnea On Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients After An Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results From The PREMIER Registry Suzanne V Arnold - 15:30:00 (0h 13m 24s) - - View Correlation between Perceived Arrhythmia Symptoms and Quality of Life in the Elderly with Heart Failure and/or Hypertension Kathleen Hickey - 15:30:00 (0h 14m 13s) - - View MI Patient Reasons for Premature Discontinuance of Cholesterol Lowering Therapy Differ from Clopidogrel Carole Decker - 15:30:00 (0h 18m 25s) - - View Impact of a Prescription Copayment Increase on Lipid Lowering Medication Adherence in Veterans Jalpa A Doshi - 15:30:00 (0h 22m 42s) - - View Organizing and Measuring Stroke Care Across Large Healthcare Environments: Experiences at the State Level and within the Veterans Administration What are the essential processes of acute stroke care? Results of the Quality Evaluation in Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack (QUEST) Project Dawn M Bravata, MD - 15:30:00 (0h 15m 32s) - - View Implementation of the ASA Stroke Systems of Care Model: State Stroke Systems of Care and Metrics Larry B Goldstein, MD, FAAN, FAHA - 15:30:00 (0h 38m 31s) - - View VA Stroke Queri: Implementing Evidence for Stroke Care in a Large National Healthcare System Linda S Williams, MD, FAHA - 15:30:00 (0h 30m 52s) - - View Systems of Care for Acute MI Mission Lifeline: An American Heart Association Initiative Alice K Jacobs, MD, FAHA - 10:30:00 (0h 37m 59s) - - View RACE Update Christopher B Granger, MD - 10:30:00 (0h 17m 22s) - - View Acute MI: Systems of Care in North Carolina James G Jollis, MD - 10:30:00 (0h 14m 42s) - - View Regional STEMI Networks: EMS is the new STEMI Quality “Mega-Consumer” Ivan Rokos, MD - 10:30:00 (0h 22m 20s) - - View The Future of Performance Measures: How Will They Drive Quality of Care? Measuring the Quality of Counseling Efforts Edward Ellerbeck, MD, MPH - 15:30:00 (0h 10m 36s) - - View The Future of Performance Measures Rodney A Hayward, MD - 15:30:00 (0h 34m 56s) - - View The Future of Performance Measures: How Will They Drive Quality of Care? Thomas H Lee, MD - 15:30:00 (0h 36m 6s) - - View Welcome Welcome John S Rumsfeld, MD, PhD - 8:00:00 (0h 14m 48s) - - View Writing for Medical Journals – A Session with the Editors Writing for Medical Journals: A Session with the Editors - Bias John A Jarcho, MD - 10:30:00 (0h 2m 25s) - - View The Open Access Movement Harold C Sox, MD, MACP - 10:30:00 (0h 19m 25s) - - View Conflicts of Interest Maja Zecevic, PhD, MPH - 10:30:00 (0h 28m 1s) - - View   Friday, May 2, 2008 Emergency Department Over-Crowding: Impact on Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes EMS “facilitates” Quality in the era of ED Crowding Ivan Rokos, MD, FACEP - 8:00:00 (0h 32m 47s) - - View What we have learned from registries: CRUSADE and ACTION Deborah B Diercks, MD, FACEP - 8:00:00 (0h 19m 50s) - - View Emergency Department Crowding Adversely Effects Quality of Care: The Data Judd E Hollander, MD, FACEP - 8:00:00 (0h 19m 9s) - - View Emergency Department Crowding Sandra M Schneider, MD, FACEP - 8:00:00 (0h 17m 32s) - - View Oral Abstracts - The Latest Science in Understanding the Outcomes of Patients with Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Randomized Controlled Trial of the Impact of Systematic Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Factor Screening and Education on Resource Utilization at 1 Year Amar C Nawathe - 8:00:00 (0h 14m 36s) - - View Flow Augmentation Index: A Major Independent Risk Factor for Silent Lacunar Infarction Kozo Hirata - 8:00:00 (0h 11m 36s) - - View Cost-Effectiveness Of Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest Raina M Merchant - 8:00:00 (0h 14m 5s) - - View Quality of Care and Outcomes Soapbox: Debating the Extremes - Controversial Views on How to Improve Healthcare Drug Eluting Stents: Emotion Driving Policy Sharon-Lise T Normand, PhD - 8:00:00 (0h 28m 39s) - - View Personal Responsibility – Our Greatest Threat Brian Ohlshansky, MD, FACC, FAHA - 8:00:00 (0h 19m 33s) - - View Turbocharging the Guidelines Turbocharging the Guidelines Sanjay Kaul, MD, FAHA - 8:00:00 (0h 3m 57s) - - View The Process Of Guidelines Development: Focus on UA/NSTEMI Jeffrey L Anderson, MD, PhD - 8:00:00 (0h 24m 19s) - - View Clinical Trials and Statistical Verdicts: Turbocharging the Guidelines George A Diamond, MD, FACC - 8:00:00 (0h 25m 46s) - - View “Turbocharging the Guidelines”: American Heart Association Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Conference 2008 Clyde W Yancy, MD - 8:00:00 (0h 47m 0s) - - View © 2007 American Heart Association, Inc. 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