The echo of an unanswered ring: Improving the rate of reporting abnormal findings on echocardiography at TJUH

Aim: To improve the rate of reporting abnormal echo findings verbally to primary patient care teams. Goal: Increase the rate of attending reported abnormal echo findings to a patient\u27s primary team by 75% in 6 months

Improving Evaluation and Follow-up of Patients Diagnosed with Left Bundle Branch Block

Left bundle branch block (LBBB) is a pathologic finding on electrocardiogram (ECG). Most commonly present in patients with antecedent hypertension, cardiac enlargement, coronary artery disease or a combination of these Class 1B recommendation: Those with findings of LBBB on ECG should undergo transthoracic echocardiography for evaluation of underlying heart disease LBBB is prevalent (33%) in patients with heart failure Cardiac resynchronization therapy can improve left ventricular mechanical function in patients with LBBB (QRS \u3e150 msec) This study aims to understand how effectively we are evaluating and following up these patients at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Improving Outpatient Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in Patients age \u3c65

Objectives To increase pneumococcal vaccination rates for patients 19-64 at JHAP to reach 70% over 3 months. To increase resident knowledge of indications for pneumococcal vaccination in patients 19-64 by 25% over 3 month

Search for narrow resonances using the dijet mass spectrum in pp collisions at s√=8 TeV

Results are presented of a search for the production of new particles decaying to pairs of partons (quarks, antiquarks, or gluons), in the dijet mass spectrum in proton-proton collisions at s√=8  TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.0  fb−1, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2012. No significant evidence for narrow resonance production is observed. Upper limits are set at the 95% confidence level on the production cross section of hypothetical new particles decaying to quark-quark, quark-gluon, or gluon-gluon final states. These limits are then translated into lower limits on the masses of new resonances in specific scenarios of physics beyond the standard model. The limits reach up to 4.8 TeV, depending on the model, and extend previous exclusions from similar searches performed at lower collision energies. For the first time mass limits are set for the Randall–Sundrum graviton model in the dijet channel

Search for ZZ ' resonances decaying to ttˉt\bar{t} in dilepton+jets final states in pppp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s}=7 TeV

A search for resonances decaying to top quark-antiquark pairs is performed using a dilepton+jets data sample recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 inverse femtobarns. No significant deviations from the standard model background are observed. Upper limits are presented for the production cross section times branching fraction of top quark-antiquark resonances for masses from 750 to 3000 GeV. In particular, the existence of a leptophobic topcolor particle Z' is excluded at the 95% confidence level for resonance masses M[Z'] < 1.3 TeV for Gamma[Z'] = 0.012 M[Z'], and M[Z'] < 1.9 TeV for Gamma[Z'] = 0.10 M[Z']