PROMOTING SAFE AND EFFECTIVE PATIENT CARE

October 21-25, 2024

The University of Chicago Medicine’s annual Quality & Safety Symposium is an opportunity for faculty, staff, and trainees to showcase quality improvement projects that are in progress or have recently been completed from across the health system. This year in 2024, over 80 posters will be displayed in a virtual setting and the top posters will be shared at lunch each day of National Hospital Quality Week.

This year, on Friday, October 25th, HDSI will host an IN PERSON Symposium showing all posters, sharing health system quality and safety resources, and announcing the Building Trust & Choosing Wisely™ Challenge  and Innovations Grant Program winners.

This event highlights UCM’s continued dedication to providing safe and effective patient care and the integration of these values throughout the medical center.

Get Inspired

by the expansive number of quality improvement projects that have recently been completed or are in progress.

Engage

with colleagues to gain insights, practical knowledge, and techniques to address quality issues in patient care.

Learn

about internal UCM resources and strategies to achieve sustainable improvements throughout the healthcare continuum of care.

National Healthcare Quality Week

Events

Daily Poster Review

  • Monday, October 21 

    Safety Poster Session

    TBD

  • Tuesday, October 22 

    Timeliness Poster Session

    Moderator: Diana Pop, MPH
    Quality Program Manager

  • Wednesday, October 23 – 12 P.M.

    Effectiveness Poster Session

    Moderator: Charlene Hope, PharmD, MS, CPHQ, CPPS
    Chief Pharmacy Quality and Medication Safety Officer

  • Thursday, October 24 

    Efficiency Poster Session

    TBD

  • Friday, October 25 

    Patient Centeredness Poster Session

    Moderator: Jenni Anderson MS, RN, NEA-BC, NPD-BC
    Director Center for Nursing Excellence/Magnet Program Director

IN-PERSON Symposium

Events

Friday, October 25

  • 11 AM Keynote

    TBD

  • 2-4 PM Quality Resource Showcase

    DCAM 4th Floor Atrium

    • Human Centered Design
    • Infection Control/SSI
    • Risk Management and Patient Safety
    • Quality Performance Improvement
    • Data & Analytics
    • Simulation Center
    • Patient Experience & Engagement Program
    • Patient Care Services
    • External Assessments

  • 2-4 PM Symposium Poster Session

    DCAM 4th Floor Atrium

    2-2:15 Innovations in Safety
    2:15-2:30 Innovations in Timeliness
    2:30-2:45 Innovations in Effectiveness
    2:45-3 Innovations in Efficiency
    3:45-4 Innovations in Patient-Centeredness

  • 3-3:45 PM Award Ceremony

    DCAM 4th Floor Atrium

    3pm Welcome
    Tom Spiegal, Chief Quality Officer

    3:05pm President’s Address
    Thomas “Tom” Jackiewicz, President of University of Chicago Health System

    3:15pm Poster Winners
    TBD

    3:25pm Quality and Safety Award
    Samantha Ruokis, Vice President of Clinical Performance Excellence

    3:30pm Building Trust & Choosing Wisely Challenge Winners
    TBD

    3:35pm Innovation Grant Winners
    Stephen Weber, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Clinical Effectiveness

Awards

Poster Winners

2022 Winners

  • Top Poster in Equity: Chronic Pain, Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder Management in Older Adults (I-COPE): Pragmatic Trial Development and Preliminary Results
  • Top Adult Poster: Managing Hypertension through Remote Patient Monitoring
  • Top Pediatric Poster: Simulation Training to Improve Pediatric Residents’ Recognition and Management of Acute Stroke
  • Top Poster Overall: An Emergency Department “Surge” Program

2021 Winners

  • Top Poster in Equity: Identifying Racial Inequities in Hypertension Control
  • Top Adult Poster: Automated Diagnosis (AutoDx): An Innovative Approach to Clinical Documentation Improvement
  • Top Pediatric Poster: Streamlining Pediatric Antibiotic Approvals to Improve Efficiency and Fellow
  • Top Poster Overall: CAUTI Reduction: An Interprofessional Project

  • Impact on an Oncology Clinical Pharmacist Specialist in an Outpatient Multiple Myeloma Clinic
  • Highly Reliable Fall Prevention: Engaging Frontline Staff
  • Reduction in Age-Related Disparities in Depression Screening Before and After Implementation of a Medical Assistant Screening Protocol

  • A Multi-Disciplinary Hip Fracture Program for UChicago Medicine
  • Choosing Wisely Order S.M.A.R.T.T. Labs: Sleep: Making Appropriate Reductions in Testing & Timing
  • UCARS Patient Transportation: University of Chicago Access Ride Service
  • Improving Capacity and Patient Throughput

  • The Gravity of Granularity: An ED Throughput Experiment
  • Videotaping Traumas – Reducing Variation in IV Fluid Administration
  • Medication Order-entry Modifications Significantly Reduce Anti-retroviral Medications Errors

  • Epic Antimicrobial Stewardship Module Significantly Increases Safety Related Interventions
  • Transport of Critically Ill Patients
  • Reducing the Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection: Rethinking C.diff Testing at UCM

  • Prevention of Elective Deliveries Less Than 39 Weeks and 0 Days Gestational Age
  • Improving Patient Satisfaction Results- The Radiology Journey
  • Scrub the Hub- Decreasing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
  • Acute Cord Compression- Most Efficient Approach to Diagnosis
  • Successful Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Reduction Using a Multi-Disciplinary Approach
  • Reduction of Voice Recognition Errors in Radiological Dictation- Effects of Systematic Individual Feedback
  • Obstetrical Hemorrhage Management

  • Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiatives to Optimize Vancomycin Dosing and Reduce Nephrotoxicity
  • Applying ACLS and Pregnancy Modifications to Maternal Cardiac Arrest A Team-based Approach
  • Ask Me to Explain Campaign: Improving Communication to Increase Patient Satisfaction in the Pediatric Emergency Department
  • Colorectal Bundle: A Multi-disciplinary Teamwork Approach to Reduce Surgical Site Infections
  • Identification of Clinical Factors for Performing Voriconazole (VRC) Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) at an Academic Medical Center
  • Improving the Care Pathway for Total Joint Patients
  • Pediatric Sepsis Initiative in the Emergency Room
  • Protecting Patients from Self Harm: Implementation of An Evidence-Based Suicide Screening Process
  • Teaching Patient-Centered Use of the Electronic Medical Record to Millennial Learners

Using Smart Forms to Discretely Capture Stroke Data for Electronic Reporting