Books from 2024
An Evaluation of Resident Confidence in Conducting Ultrasound Guided Peripheral IV Placement Before and After Hands-on Workshop, Gerges Abdelsayed, Rishabh Agrawal, Jake Francisco, Christopher Reguyal, Geeth Kondaveeti, and Jilian R. Sansbury
Improvement for Cerclage Placement in Relation to Cervical Length in Patients Undergoing Cerclage Placement at Memorial Health and Relationship with Preterm Birth, J Elise Abernathy, Anthony Royek, A Tanner Fincher, Sai Nagula, Alyssa Moffitt, Abby Unger, Cullen Smith, and Eric K. Shaw
IDENTITY: Inpatient Dialogue and Engagement with Nurses To Improve Team dYnamics, Anna Maria Abi Nehme, Ashley Becker, Raheeq Mohamedsaleh, Shin Zaw, Vigneshwar K. Ramasamy, Raj Shah, Victoria Odeleye, Jorge Restrepo, and Ashwini Komarla
Successful Implementation of Pulmonary Embolism Response Team at Oak Hill Hospital, Shaikh Afaq, Michael Cox, Jaafar Hamdan, and Hayder Abidali
Implementation of Common Emergency Department Procedure Checklists to Improve Resident Provider Efficiency Background, Abigail Alorda, Alexa Ragusa, Natalie Diers, Taylor Cesarz, Shayne Gue, and Latha Ganti
Improving Clostridium Difficile detection at Medical City Arlington: A Quality Improvement Project, Bremmy Alsbrooks, Nur-Alhuda Shahub, Shabaz Mallick, Jesse Brown, Afsha Rais, and Afsha Rais
Current Trends in School Nursing in Musculoskeletal injuries and Concussions, Christoffer Amdahl, Hans Drawbert, Sadra Forati, Joshua Allen, Sana Qureshi, and Afsha Rais
Enhancing Breast Cancer Screening in KIMS Clinic: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Daniel J. Avila Castillo, Crystal Ike, and Mina Choudhry
Screen it Out! Improving Colon Cancer Screening Among Kingwood Clinic Patients, Daniel J. Avila Castillo, Bhavin Patel, Dhruv Patel, Rajeev Raghavan, and Zuhair Ali
Resident Gamification Challenge: Unlocking POCUS Proficiency Board Review Through Play, Kevin Bertrand, Emily Macauley, and Michael Falgiani
Utilization of an Activity-Based Journal Club to Deliver Pediatric Education to Prehospital Providers, Lauren Bolton, Ratna Acharya, Jeffrey Katz, Linh Nguyen, Ariel Vera, and Ayanna Walker
Implementation of Viz.ai Augmented Intelligence Software to Reduce Door to Puncture Times and Patient Outcomes at a Comprehensive Stroke Center, Cody Bryant, Brandon Womack, Mason Patel, and Sanjay Sharma
Mastering the ITE with EM Mastermind: A Board Game for Board Review, Taylor Cesarz, Stephanie Cohen, and Shayne Gue
Heart of Medicine: Simulation to Educate Pre-Clinical Med Students in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Taylor Cesarz, Rachel Shi, Adrien Thokalath, Madison Morris, Shayne Gue, Noe Navarro, Rebecca Beiler, and Stephanie Cohen
Improving Rates of Postpartum Depression Screening: A Quality Improvement Project, Sarah Chason, Keisha Reddick, Alexis Brown, Cassandra Hensel, Hannah Pittman, and Jennifer Brown
Targeted Procedure Lab to Improve Self-Identified Deficiencies Among Graduating Emergency Medicine Residents, Stephanie Cohen, Andrew Bobbett, Shayne Gue, and Jeffrey Thompson
Multiple Casualty Simulation Scenario Secondary to Natural Disaster at a Music Festival, Stephanie Cohen, Robert Pell, Casey McGillicuddy, Nidhi Sahi, Ariel Vera, Steven Nazario, Andrew Bobbett, Rebecca Beiler, Noe Navarro, Latha Ganti, and Shayne M. Gue
Utility of Bedside Ultrasound in Identifying Undiagnosed Malpresentation Upon Admission to Labor and Delivery: A Quality Improvement Project, Kristen Daugherty, Gloria Wang, Samantha McLean, Jeffrey Johnson, and Kelly Mosher
Enhancing Interprofessional Communication: Strategies for Nurses and Residents at HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, Juan Thomas del Calvo, Mehuliben Upadhyaya, Sathvik Saineni, Minh Anh Le, Awss Shalhoub, Nima Hosseinian, Ashwini Komarla, and Olga Karasik
The Pit Crew Card Game: A Novel Gamifications Exercise to Improve EMS Performance in Critical Care Scenarios, Danielle DiCesare, Bridget Scheveck, Jeffrey Adams, Maria Tassone, Vanessa I. Diaz-Cruz, Christine Van Dillen, Latha Ganti, Shayne Gue, and Ayanna Walker
Escape the Music Festival - Disaster Day with a Twist, Drake Dixon, Alexa Ragusa, Maria Tassone, and Shayne Gue
Learning from Health Care Counselors’ Perspectives on Health Care Worker Distress: A Qualitative Analysis, Nancy Downs, Judy Davidson, Angela Haddad, and Sidney Zisook
Investigating and Addressing Deficiencies in our Current Urinalysis Reflex Program, Alexander Duggan, Megan Hobbs, and Cameron Holsomback
Increasing Online Reviews and New Patients in Clinic with QR Codes, Tristan Fun and Danielle Ford
LAI Delivery QI: Improving Compliance and Time to Treatment, Esteban Garcia, Cody Teleki, Jennifer Lee, and Zachary Robinson
Increased Confidence and Knowledge of Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics in Nursing, Improving the Timeliness to Intervention, Barbara Gracious, Marc Macaluso, and Haryashpal Bhullar
Come One, Come All: Carnival Themed Gamification of Emergency Medicine Board Review, Shayne Gue, Taylor Cesarz, and Maria Tassone
Introduction to ATLS and Emergency Preparedness, Leon Gu, Urvashi Firozi, and Pradeep D'Souza
Early Implementation of CHF Orders and Physician Education, Qazi Haider, Tapannita Padhi, Hunter Thornberg, Barry Brown, Alexandra Villacres, Justin Roy P. Sanchez, and Ashley Henderson
The Impact of Tamsulosin and Duration in Catheter-associated UTI (CAUTI) at Weatherford, Feeza Hasan, Diana Steedley, Maria Guerrero, and Muhammad Siddique
STEMI Alert Notification System at HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital: A Quality Improvement Project, Jomel Jacinto, Pranav Bommineni, Steven Goodfriend, and Mubbasher Syed
Eye Care for Corneal Transplant Donors in the ICU: What We Didn’t See Coming, Ashton Lackey, Joey Royea, Alexandra Hartman, Aaron Worthley, Abbi Mason, Bryan Howington, Bharat Meenavalli, George Helmrich, and Stephen M. Meyer
Bridging the Gap for HIV Education in Primary Care Setting, Oregon McDiarmid and Lindsay Porter
Improving the Blood Product Administration Process at HCAFlorida Osceola Hospital, Neha Meda, Kar Shun Constant Mak, Parasto Asnaashari, Natalia Irina Tejada, Joshua Sutarwan, Olga Karasik, and Sarah Tinsley
Quality Improvement Project Regarding Concomitant Administration of Promethazine and Opioids in Hospitalized Patients Chronic Pain, Alexey Minevskiy, Wade Wyckoff, Corey Stone, Romil Patel, Shrikanth Parthasarathy, and Denis Parinov
Learning Mass Casualty Incident Triage via Role Play Simulation, Martin Morales-Cruz, Ayanna Walker, Drake Dixon, Latha Ganti, and Shayne Gue
Implementing a Standardized Screening Algorithm for Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnancy, Ariel Moskowitz, Nicole Tenzel, Joshua Mangels, and Lyndsay Millican
A Guide To Pediatric Wellness through Utilization of Dragon Commands, Prasad Munusamy, Parisa Biazar, Jacob Trimble, and Anthony Shadiack
Improving Depression Screening in Primary Care by Implementing a Systematic Annual Screening Protocol: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Trang Nguyen, Ian Whitaker, Danny Tran, Aidan Lum Kong, and Nan Crossley
Reducing Broad-spectrum Antibiotic Use by Appropriately Treating Community Acquired Pneumonia, Caleb I. Nieves-Velez, Richard Pieri, and Miki Otta
Falls Quality Initiative Project, Sean O'Leary, Himat Gill, Steven Tran, Zeeshan Haque, and Christopher Burton
Improving Competence and Confidence in Outpatient Management of Major Depressive Disorder, Anish Pal, Pavan Anand, and Brett M. Garrett
Discharge Implementation Project: Ascertaining if Discharge Implementation Orders Overall Improves Discharge Metrics at a Texas Hospital, Zachary Paras, Omar Nawab, Komthorn Cunvong, Jackson V. Littlejohn, and Sathish Karmegam
Improving the Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm at Grand Prairie Internal Medicine Clinic , Riddhi H. Patel and Danielle Ford
Artificial Intelligence Respoinse to Common Medication Concerns with Heart Failure GDMT in Outpatient Setting, Dominique Pean, Laaraeb Nadeem, Suhas Kandimalla, and Brotee Rahman
Decreasing Blood Culture Contamination at a Children’s Hospital, Taylor Pearl, Brittany Bare, Ricardo Zegarra-Linares, and Jessica Lee
Improving Documentation of Patients' Physical Activity in the Outpatient Setting, Jordan Price, Syed Abbas, William Bass, Rigoberto Hernandez, Abdullah Shuaib, Michele L. McCarroll, and Lindsay Porter
Enhanced Naloxone Prescribing for Opioid-using Patients on Hospital Discharge, Dang Quang-Trung, Joan Hyland, Barbara Gracious, and Robyn Meadows
Reducing Medication Barriers Before Patient Check-Out at a Student Run Free Clinic, Jenna D. Reisler, Daniel Bao, Alison Zill, and Marysuna Wilkerson
Improving the Rates of Diabetic Screening Exams in a Rural Outpatient Clinic, Sofia Rohde, Mohit Mathavan, Shalaka Venkatraman, David Nguyen, Gino Singer, Shivanie Ramdin, Jennifer Abernathy, and Nicholas Dorsey
Establishing a Protocol for Hospice Compassionate Withdrawal of Ventilatory Support in the Home Setting, Georganna Rosel, Ana Sanchez, and Reuben Smith
Effect of the Intern Survival Book Handbook in Medical City Fort Worth Family Medicine Residency Program, Nancy Sang, Harry Pham, Tammy Nguyen, Zara Soomro, Patrick Feng, and Ali Al-Nahi
Quality Improvement Project: Compliance of Antenatal Testing in Patients with Class III Obesity, Isabella L. Sciacca, Timothy Kremer, and Nicole Tenzel
Impact of Vertical Zone Redesign: One Hospitals Experience, Zachary Shields, Enrique Alvarez-Ventura, and Curtis Johnson
QI on Addressing BMI in the Outpatient Setting, A Shuravloff, Ryan Bradbury, Matthew Widdison, and Teresa Johnson
Gamification to Improve EMS Knowledge of Medical Capacity Determination, Ross Sinicrope, Nasim Motaghedi, Zachary Yates, Elliott Richardson, Stephanie Schieffert, Jacob Wright, Abigail Alorda, Jeffrey Katz, Linh Nguyen, Shayne Gue, Christine Van Dillen, and Ayanna Walker
Quality Improvement to Optimize Pediatric MRI Efficiency in Hospitalized Patients:Improving the Ordering Process and Reducing Time to MRI Completion, Andrew Stack, John Adent, and Eric Shaw
Development and Implementation of an Educational Prenatal Packet to Improve Obstetric Management and Patient Education Within a Family and Community Medicine Residency Program, Jalicia Sturdivant, Julianna Snow, Esther Piervil, Erica Paulos, and Kimberly Mathurin
ED Procedural Supply and Operations, Alex Teshon, Konner Cue, Logan Prewitt, and Anita Datta
Improving Lesion Diameter Reporting on Skin Biopsy Requisition Forms: A Quality Improvement Project, Christopher Wong, Christian Scheufele, Marshall Hall, Henry Lim, Daniel A. Nguyen, Stephen Weis, Michael Carletti, and Dustin Wilkes
Single Question Survey vs the Ongoing Violence Assessment Tool for Intimate Partner Violence Screening in the ED, Zhengqiu Zhou, Donna Carden, Mariel Michaels, Gretchen Nonawzki, Saria Slowey, Maureen Mohan, and Robyn Hoelle
Books from 2023
Improving Accurate Documentation of Appearance within the MSE based on BMI, Shaina Aifuwa, Sampreeth Murali, Valerie Cordero, Nadia Jacob, Cristobal Cintron, Almari Ginory, and Sarah Fayad
Improving Communication Between Residents & Consultants at HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, Anwar Alshaakh Moh'd Mari, Geover Virella, Aaron Verbeelen, Hannah VanSumeren, Ana Ledo, Liliana Franco, Manuel Carrazana, and Joshua Shultz
Improving Nursing Staff and House Staff Communication Within a Technology Platform (iMobile), Raisa Anwer, Phuong Nguyen, Vidhi Patel, and Nadine Bos
PHQ -9 Utilization in the Primary Care Setting, Michael Armstrong, Ramisa Rahman, Ceferino Cruz IV, and Afsha Rais Kaisani
Impact of Adherence to a Standardized Oxytocin Induction Protocol on Obstetric and Neonatal Outcomes, Arthur Baker III, James christmas, Rachel A. Sheehan, Sue M. Cadwell, Sarah A. Fraker, Alexis Finer, Mike Flynn, and Pranav C. Mehta
Descriptive Assessment of the Pediatric Emergency Team System: The Memorial Health University Medical Center Experience, Ashley Cheek, Lauren Hebert, Sunil Keshwah, and Jessica Lee
Does Brief Intervention in the Form of a Lecture Improve Resident Knowledge About Hep C Screening?, Mary DaCosta, Evelyn Chicas, Kiana Clem, and Shelby Collymore
Improving Communication Between Nurses & Residents at HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, Juan T. del Calvo, Mehuliben Upadhyaya, Sathvik Saineni, Minh Anh Le, Awiss Shalhoub, and Olga Karasik
From Distress to Destress: Screening for Anxiety at Federally Qualified Health Center, Megan Flaviano, John Do, Angelina Rodriguez, Darren Rahaman, Jeremy Sporrong, and Ashwitha Francis
Reducing Inappropriate NPO Orders for Scheduled Transthoracic Echocardiograms, Felipe Flores, Harrison Stubbs, Natalie Rivera Vargas, Katie Lamar, Joane Titus, Joshua Shultz, Alexander Kong, Ashwini Komarla, and Mark Johnson
Reducing the Primary Cesarean Birth Rate in a Community Based Hospital Setting, Madison Fringer, Sarina Garcia, and Melissa Mendez
Quiet at Night: Decreasing the Number Of Overnight Calls by Rounding at Night, Neil Gerts, Trevor Owens, Preetivi Ellis, and Jasprit Takher
Incrasing the Rate of Pneumococcal Vaccination in Patients Over 65, Ubaldo Gonzalez Morales, Muna Alhusban, Chelsea Guan, Natalia Cavin, Humeyra Dogan, Liliana Franco Moreira, Ashwini Komarla, and Allison Ferrara
Implementing the ERAC Protocol for Cesarean Sections, Olga Hawkins, Michelle Ozcan, and Jose Rojas
HCA Healthcare Online Writing Lab: QI Basics, Distinguishing Research from Quality Improvement, HCA Healthcare and Mike Flynn
Utility of Daily CBC in Hospitalized Patients, Lauren Howard, Kayla Engstrom, Aisha Khan, Andrew Vest, and Carlos Vargas
Implementation of a Resident-Designed Procedure Cart in a Busy Emergency Department, Kimberly Johnson, Caroline M. Smith, Lee Barker, Stephanie Iken, Jean Laubinger, Connor Fraser, Michael Falgiani, Leoh Leon, Samyr Elbadri, Joshua Walker, James L. Wilson, Frank Fraunfelter, and Latha Ganti
Video Documentation as a Measure of Written Documentation Accuracy in Emergency Medical Service Field Intubations, Christopher S. Keller, Christopher Dilger, Shih-Chin Chou, Rasheed Lawal, and Shane Jenks
Monitoring Concordance in the Management of Transfusing Blood Components in Cirrhotic Patients for Paracentesis with Evidence-Based Guidelines, Joseph Kim and Gregory Moses
Improving Comfort and Confidence with Advance Care Planning in Primary Care, Thomas Krajewski, Donald Courtney, and Tyler Kilgore
Prioritizing and Prescribing Exercise: Use of a Simple Tool to Encourage Clinical Conversations Around Exercise in Family Medicine Out-Patient Clinic, Michael Ladd, Parisa Biazar, Ting Han, Jennifer Horawski, Lisa Wright, and Anthony Shadiack
Care Alert Program in Chronic Recurrent ED Utilizing Patients: Expanded Study, Jonathan Leggett, Kaitlyn Phelps, Erica Gibbons, Jonathan Bryan, Brent Wright, Daniel Nunez, and Brian Griggs
QI project: Increasing Appropriate Use of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment as an Adjunctive Treatment for Patients with Musculoskeletal Pain in the Outpatient Setting, Zhe Liu, Aelius Khan, Derek Pride, Thomas Krajewski, and Anthony Shadiack
Management of Blood Pressure in Pregnancy: New Perspectives from the CHAP Trial, Virginia Lowe, Gabriella Nonni, and Kerry Holliman
Improving the Blood Product Administration Process at HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, Kar Shun Constant Mak, Neha Meda, Natalia Tejada, Parasto Asnaashari, Joshua Sutarwan, Joshua Shultz, Maria Wallis-Crespo, and Sarah Tinsley
Decreasing rate of CLABSI at Medical City North Hills with Implementation of a “Central Line Cart”, William Mangin, Hong Lou, and David Maldonado
Longitudinal Study On The Effects Of Implementing Continuous Glucose Monitoring for the Management of Patients with Type-I and Type-II Diabetes Mellitus on Multiple Insulin Injections in an Internal Medicine Residency Clinic, Andrey Manov, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Gundip Dhillon, Athena Dhaliwal, Sabrina Antonio, Yema Jalal, Ashrita Donepudi, Jonathan Nazha, Melissa Banal, and Joseph House
Engaging Chief Medical Officers to Improve Multidisciplinary Rounds, Gregory McCormack and Pranav C. Mehta
Improving Patient Knowledge on Exercise and Dietary Recommendations: Quality Improvement in an Outpatient Setting, Shannon McMenamin and Nicky Chopra
Improving Use of a Standardized Medical ICU Order Set, Ernesto Munoz-Pena, Sesha Sai Kanakamedala, Ramzy Daoud, Suhail Saad-Omer, Aarushi Varshney, Tristan Tanner, Alexander Kong, Joshua Shultz, and Ashwini Komarla
An Innovative Model for Graduate Medical Education Faculty Development through Physician In Training Delivery, Daniel A. Nguyen, Christopher Wong, Christian Scheufele, Michael Carletti, and Stephen Weis
Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Skin Cancer Screenings Among Primary Care Physicians, Aleksandra Radzio, Navina DeLight, and Scott Lang
Utilizing a Pre-Cesarean Checklist in Labor and Delivery, Randdie-Joyce Rameau, Frances Cintron, Veronica Figueroa, and Margarita Olivares
Preventing Complications of High Dose Steroids for Patients at the Orlando VA Healthcare System, Sriya Reddy, Sonia Alicea, Emmanuel Magsino, Alfredo Palomino Abella, Faris Abby Alamin, and Ashwini Komarla
APPEAL: Advocating POLST Education and Adherence at End of Life, Carlo Reyes, Susan Hickman, Neil Gerts, Mandeep Sablok, and Jasprit Takher
Improving Group B Streptococcus Susceptibility Testing, Sofia Sarduy and Michelle Ozcan
Effects of Free Physical Fitness on BMI, Kaviya Sathyakumar, Hira Hussain, Lizbeth Zambrano, Amisa Patel, Amber Patel, and Stephanie Anderson
Increasing Utilization of the FIB-4 Score to Improve Appropriate NAFLD Consultation, Fanny Stampfli Silva, Teayoung Kim, Omar Masarweh, Stephanie Lopez Orizondo, Mohammed Rahhal, and Feras Al-Moussally
Demonstration of the Managing for Daily Improvement Quality Improvement Methodology in an Alcohol Withdrawal Protocol Audit, Alex Stephens, Diana Hoot, and Amy Cain