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Background
Hosted by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the IHI Scientific Symposium takes place on Monday, December 7th, 2020 as a pre-conference day of the IHI Forum. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects, the Symposium and Forum are held virtually this year. The IHI Scientific Symposium aims to attract high quality scientific work, focused on the improvement of health and health care, and to foster dialog and share learning among participants.
In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that the health and health care fields need evidence to be produced, evaluated, and applied more rapidly than ever. Moreover, the inequitable impact of COVID-19 across racial groups in the United States has brought to the forefront the existence of widespread, longstanding, systemic inequities. Therefore, this year’s Symposium includes a special focus on:
How improvement methods can contribute to the rapid production of practical evidence, and
Applying improvement methods to dismantle structural racism and inequity.
The IHI Scientific Symposium features a keynote speaker, method sessions, as well as poster and oral presentations from our community of quality improvers and applied researchers. The 16 oral presentations and 16 featured posters were selected from over 130 abstract submissions through a peer review process that ensured each abstract was reviewed by multiple reviewers. For those authors who gave permission, the abstracts of the selected oral presentations and featured posters are published in this supplement.
Marianne McPherson
Senior Director
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Acknowledgements
On behalf of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the hosts would like to thank the individuals whose contributions have made the 2020 IHI Scientific Symposium a success, especially in such a challenging year and amid the extraordinary circumstances that 2020 has presented. Particular thanks are due to the abstract reviewers, without whose efforts we could not have accomplished a Symposium of this quality: Matthew Anstey, Barry Appleton, Jafet Arrieta, Karen Baldoza, Pierre Barker, Don Berwick, Tam Duong, Tina Foster, Sandip Godambe, Don Goldmann, Keziah Imbeah, Aileen Killen, Mara Laderman, Ni∼non Lewis, Lauren Macy, Jesse McCall, Rick McClead, Patricia McGaffigan, Marianne McPherson, James Moses, Brant Oliver, Padmaja Pavuluri, Lloyd Provost, Jeff Rakover, Amy Reid, Edahrline Salas, Bhargavi Sampath, Nirav Shah, Rebecca Steinfield, Paul Sullivan, and David Williams. We thank all those who submitted their research for review. We extend deep gratitude to our advisory group members: Jafet Arrieta, Karen Baldoza, Pierre Barker, Don Goldmann, Clark Jackson, Robert Lloyd, Lauren Macy, Kedar Mate, Patricia McGaffigan, Marianne McPherson, Gareth Parry, and Rebecca Steinfield, who provided valuable insight and guidance to make this year’s Symposium as enriching as possible while rapidly transitioning to a virtual conference environment. Finally, we offer special thanks to Carol Beasley, Lauren Clegg, David Coletta, Christopher Herpel, Clark Jackson, Trina Lorch, Kayla Mossien, Denise Osei-Mensah, Gareth Parry, Cleola Payne, Jason Reed, Sara Valentin, Amanda Swiatocha, Catherine Warchal, and the team at the British Medical Journal, who dedicated countless hours to the development of this year’s program so that we might feature the valuable and generous research shared with us this year.