Quality Improvement/Patient Safety

Trainee

Writing and Publishing Quality Improvement: Practice, Pitfalls, and Perspectives (from Journal Editors!)

Leader(s)

• LR

  Lori Rutman, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
  University of Washington - Seattle Children's
  Seattle, Washington, United States

  Slides

Co-Leader(s)

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  Matthew Garber, MD, FHM, FAAP (he/him/his)

  Professor
  UF COM-Jacksonville
  Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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  Patrick Brady, MD, MSc (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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  Alex Kemper, MD, MPH, MS (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Department of Pediatrics
  Nationwide Children's Hospital
  Columbus, Ohio, United States
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  Munish Gupta, MD MMSc

  Neonatologist
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  Boston, MA, Massachusetts, United States

Workshop

Description: There are many opportunities for improvement in pediatric health care, ranging from serious patient safety events to pervasive system-wide health disparities. As such, quality improvement (QI) has grown as an area of interest and scholarly focus for pediatricians. Still, the majority of improvements are not shared in literature, leading to missed opportunities to learn, repeating of the same mistakes, and too little academic credit for improvers. Further, many QI manuscripts submitted for publication are of poor quality. In this highly interactive workshop, participants will critically assess the SQUIRE 2.0 guidelines for QI publications, focusing on key elements for successful QI writing: rationale and context. Rationale relates to the theory for interventions, and when described well, can be the theme that ties a manuscript together. Context is "everything that isn't the intervention" and helps readers assess the generalizability of a QI intervention. Through examples and group discussion, we will highlight the importance of dissemination of QI initiatives through the literature while also demonstrating the risks of QI efforts not performed with appropriate rigor and structure. Participants will have an opportunity to directly apply lessons learned in a brief writing exercise, and will receive immediate feedback to improve their writing. The workshop will conclude with a discussion and question and answer session led by editors and editorial board members from Pediatrics, Hospital Pediatrics, and Pediatric Quality and Safety.