1. Lee Arcement, MD, MPH

3. Donabedian’s Quality Triangle-It’s Relevance to Process Improvement -Avedis Donabedian, MD, MPH (1919-2000)

6. Protocol Development Title Background-Problem, magnitude, what is known, unknown, hypothesis, aims Methods-design/setting, population & selection, intervention/measured, outcomes (1, 2) & how measured, stats Results-demographics, 1 & 2 outcomes Conclusions-limitations, conclusions, clinical implications Bibliography

7. Current LSU ICON Resident Projects “Appropriate Antiplatelet Therapy for Heart Failure Patients” (Alexander Parr) “Effect of a Bundled Order Set on Quality of Care for Patients Hospitalized with Acute Decompensated COPD” (Chang Hoang) “Effect of American Stroke Association Guidelines on Inpatient Strokes and TIA Quality of Care” (Jiger Patel, Michael Charlet) “Efficacy of Diabetic Ketoacidosis Protocol in Improving Clinical Outcomes” (Diyva Narayan)

8. Current LSU ICON Resident Projects (cont.) “Appropriate DVT Prophylaxis for Heart Failure Patients” (T. Nesteruk) “Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease in Heart Failure Patients across the LSU Public Health Hospitals” (H. Dave, T. Ferguson) “Impact of Disease Management on Pneumovax Immunization Collateral Benefit” (S. Gladde)

9. Collaboration with LSU ICON Resources Protocol Development Design & Analysis Regulatory Approval Implementation

10. LSU ICON CORE SERVICES Medical Informatics Core Ronald Horswell, PhD/Connie Murla Clinical & administrative database extraction, database development Other Administrative Services Robert Leonhard, MBA Assistance with IRB submission, assistance with protocol design around quality improvement focus

11. Effect of a Bundled Order Set on Quality of Care for Patients Hospitalized with Acute Decompensated COPD-Canh Hoang Background Methods Results Conclusions Role of ICON

12. Benefits to the LSU Residency Program Scholarly activity Prepare house officers for CQI after training Prepare for recertification Recruitment tool Resident CQI-core competencies

13. Overall Impact of Projects on Improvement of Health Outcomes Pending