The latest groundbreaking research in surgical quality and patient safety is available at your fingertips through the ACS Quality and Safety Conference 2022 on-demand digital platform. You can view more than 30 sessions online, at your own pace, with your registration. (In-person and virtual attendees of the live conference automatically have access.) The on-demand content will be available through October 15, 2022.
Check out summaries of another three of this year’s biggest sessions, and then follow the links to watch them today.
Surgical Quality: Fact Versus Fiction
Surgical Quality Officers and hospital leaders from around the country in both academic and community hospitals settings shared their insights after they dug deep to find out how quality is defined, practiced, and implemented across different surgical departments in their hospital. Panelists Robert J. Winchell, MD, FACS, Caroline E. Reinke, MD, FACS, and Rachel R. Kelz, MBA, MSCE, FACS, shared their key take-aways, how they used their findings to create a foundational quality infrastructure across their hospital, and how this exercise revealed an urgent need to establish a national standard and framework for surgical quality.
Setting Up a Quality Improvement (QI) Project and Charter
The session addressed how to set up a QI charter and the elements of a charter, how to evaluate and set up QI goals, measuring and monitoring gaps in quality, and setting QI goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. Panelists include Ian S. Soriano, MD, FACS, Elizabeth C. Wick, MD, FACS, Fergal Fleming, MD, MPH, FRCSI, FACS, and Sharon S. Lum, MD, FACS.
Quality Care Is Equitable Care: A Call to Action to Link Quality to Achieving Health Equity
This popular, topical session, moderated by Cherisse Berry, MD, FACS, focused on how health equity is linked to quality patient outcomes; the economics of achieving health equity within a health system; and how to develop and implement a health equity framework within organizations for institutions and local providers to ensure the equity is included as a component of a quality. Panelists included Kathie-Ann Joseph, MD, MPH, FACS, Kasper Wang, MD, FACS, FAAP, and Bonnie S. Mason, MD, FAAOS, ACS Medical Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
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