Academic and Research Skills
Cross-Disciplinary Pathway
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
Matthew Schefft, DO, MSHA
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Corinna Rea, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nina Dadlez, MD, MSC
Medical Director of Quality, Pediatric Hospitalist
Pediatrics
Tufts Childrens Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Ashaunta Anderson, MD, MPH, MSHS (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States
Tiffani Johnson, MD, Mac (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
Sacramento, California, United States
Using Quality Improvement Methodology to Address Racial Disparities in Pediatric Clinical Outcomes: Racism has created gross inequities in the outcomes and experience of care for patients and families of color. Clinicians and institutions rarely include race or ethnicity during improvement projects believing that treating patients equally would improve care for all patients. However, quality improvement (QI) projects have the potential to further widen the gap if equity is not considered in the planning process by improving care for only a subset of the population. Understanding that racism and its resulting disparities are key drivers of inequity is a necessary step in adequately tailoring interventions to narrow inequity in clinical outcomes.
The Race in Medicine SIG and QI SIG co-hosted a workshop in 2014 to discuss how QI can reduce inequity. The SIGs are collaborating again to provide an update on limited progress since then. In addition to highlighting rare successes, we will address areas where little progress has been made and identify barriers to that progress. Content experts, including both hospital-based and ambulatory medicine, will discuss how they have used quality improvement to narrow equity gaps. They will provide examples attendees can use to address inequity in their own improvement work. We will review best practices, share struggles, and provide an opportunity for these experts to answer your questions.
The target audience for this session includes pediatric clinicians, researchers, and administrators who are interested in: 1) QI work 2) health equity research 3) using QI methodology to address inequity 4) providing socially responsible and equitable care in their clinical setting.
SIG Speaker: Jean L. Raphael, MD, MPH – Baylor College of Medicine
SIG Speaker: Michelle-Marie Peña, MD – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
SIG Speaker: Andrew F. Beck, MD, MPH – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center