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Have you developed an impactful and creative way to address disparities in care in your emergency department?

Perhaps your team has come up with a unique way to incorporate innovative technologies?

Share your solutions and showcase your department’s commitment to quality improvement by joining the ACEP QI Challenge.

Submit Your Project Today

ACEP’s QI Challenge recognizes and spotlights quality improvement and patient safety projects within emergency medicine.

Organized by ACEP’s Quality & Patient Safety Committee and the Section of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, the QI Challenge focuses on three domains:

  • Ensuring Health Equity (particularly behavioral health)
  • Projects that incorporate innovative technologies or care delivery models
  • Led by trainees (medical students, residents, and fellows)

Challenge organizers will review all submitted projects using a standard scoring rubric. One winner in each of the three domains will be recognized at ACEP24, in the QIPS Section newsletter and various other ACEP communication channels.

Projects will be judged on their overall impact, relevance to one of the three categories, and improvement science methodology. And the submitted projects must have been completed within the last 2 years.

These resources can help you get started:

Applications are due May 31, 2024.

SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT TODAY!

 

Get Inspired by the 2023 ACEP QI Challenge Award Winners

Reducing Disparities: Lost in Interpretation: Addressing Gaps in Interpreter Use Documentation

 

Elaine Hsiang, MD; Carolina Ornelas-Dorian, MD; Jaskaran Bains, MD; Kaitlin DeWilde, MD; Jaskirat Dhanoa, MD; Katrin Jaradeh, MD

University of California, San Francisco

The UCSF team developed and implemented a built-in smartphrase into ED physician note templates to increase the practice of documenting certified interpreter use to improve access to and expanding interpreter use capabilities.

Choosing Wisely: Developing a Standardized Method to Identify Patients Appropriate for Peer Review in Two Mid-Sized Community Emergency Departments

Katherine Sebald, PA-C

Mayo Clinic, MN

The Mayo team conducted a study to identify and improve the number of ED cases within two mid-sized community EDs that would benefit from a formal peer review but were originally missed through current reporting practices aiming to standardize methods utilized to identify cases appropriate for review.

Resident/Fellow: Strengthening Sepsis Care at a tertiary care teaching hospital in New Delhi, India

Charu Malhotra, MBBS

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

The New Delhi team developed a sepsis screening tool and protocol deployed at triage which increased blood culture rates and reduced door-to-antibiotic time where ED patients identified needing antibiotics received them within 60 minutes of arrival increased from 7.5% to 55.8%.

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