3205 - Quality Improvement- Moving Beyond Clinical Guidelines

Monday, April 25, 2022

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM US MT

Location: Convention Center: 205

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Course Number: 3205

Leader(s)

Roopali Bapat, MD, MSHQS

Associate Professor
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Beverly Brozanski, MD

Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Chesterfield, Missouri, United States
Eugenia Pallotto, MD, MSCE (she/her/hers)

Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Levine Children's Hospital
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Anthony Piazza, MD

Associate Professor
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Roopali V. Bapat, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Beverly Brozanski, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Eugenia Pallotto, MD, MSCE: ● Children's Hospital Neonatal Consortium (Currently Ongoing) (Products/Services: Board Member or Executive Role)

Anthony J. Piazza, MD: ● Children's Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (Currently Ongoing) (Products/Services: Board Member or Executive Role)

1. Have you ever struggled with implementing your QI idea?
2. Have you ever worked on an improvement project but realized that you have only pre and post intervention data?
3. Have you faced barriers in publishing/reporting your QI project?

If the answer to any or all these questions is ‘Yes’, this workshop is for you. Learn how to proactively set up your project to avoid common pitfalls in QI implementation and learn strategies for ongoing improvement and sustainability. In this workshop, we provide a framework to achieve meaningful outcomes in a QI project. In addition, we will outline important considerations that will lead to successful writing and publishing QI reports.
Engaging participants: The workshop will include didactic overview of fundamental QI elements, operational definitions of key QI components, multidisciplinary stakeholder team, and organizational/system-based components required for a successful QI projects. The ‘activity’ section will include critical appraisal of hypothetical project abstracts. Participants will be guided to recognize the project shortcoming, identify steps to overcome these shortcomings and will understand the importance of evaluating the data results over a time series instead of ‘before’ and ‘after’. The participants will then be guided to develop an ‘optimal’ version of the abstract. Participants will get an opportunity to identify how to apply lessons learnt in their respective institutions. We will conclude with important learning strategies and highlight shared learning.