Hosted by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the IHI Scientific Symposium on Improving the Quality and Value of Health Care takes place on Monday, 10 December, 2018, in Orlando, Florida. The Scientific Symposium aims to attract high quality scientific work, focused on the improvement of health and health care. The Symposium also aims to foster dialog and share learning among participants.

The day features keynote speakers, method sessions, as well as poster and oral presentations from our community of quality improvers. The 24 oral presentations were selected from over 140 abstract submissions through a peer review process that ensured each abstract was reviewed by four reviewers. For those authors who gave permission, the abstracts of the selected oral presentations are published in this supplement.