2023 ACS Quality & Safety Conference Sessions Focus on QI in Cancer Programs

Register today for the 2023 ACS Quality & Safety Conference, July 10 – 13 in Minneapolis, MN. Several of the conference sessions will focus on cancer care and feature ACS Cancer Programs leaders.

On July 12, a group of panelists led by Clara Park, MD, FACS, Vice-Chair of the CoC Quality Assurance and Data Committee, will focus on “Addressing the ‘Inevitable Buts’ of Performance-Related Quality Improvement (QI).” From stakeholder engagement to workflow challenges and IT barriers, this session will take learners through practical examples of how to overcome some of the “buts” of QI.

David Odell, MD, FACS, a member of the CoC Quality Improvement Committee, will lead another group of experts in “Using Root Cause Analysis to Achieve Operative Standards Compliance.” Leveraging QI tools like process mapping and root cause analysis, the panel will discuss real-time interventions to address operative standards challenges. Participants in this session will also get a “sneak peek” of an upcoming national QI initiative to address CoC Standard 5.8.

Later that day, Anthony Yang, MD, MS, FACS, Chair of the Core for Quality Improvement Methodology and Implementation, will be joined by CoC Chair Timothy Mullett, MD, FACS, CoC Education Committee Chair Laurie Kirstein, MD, FACS, and National Accreditation for Breast Centers (NAPBC) Chair Katharine Yao, MD, FACS, to discuss strategies for using the new ACS Quality Framework to conduct a cancer QI project.  The session, titled “Learn the Eight Steps to Conduct a Cancer QI Project,” will provide an introductory overview of the framework and panelists will provide real world examples of how they moved through each of these steps when designing cancer QI projects.

Finally, Dr. Mullett will wrap up the day with a discussion on the Just ASK and Beyond ASK national QI projects in a session titled “How You Can Move Beyond ASKing through Collaborative Learning.”