Poster Submission is Closed

18th Annual

Top Poster Sessions: October 16-20, 2023

The Quality and Safety Symposium’s Poster Session will showcase the hundreds of quality improvement projects across UChicago Medicine. The posters will be hosted on an interactive cloud-based platform. This format allows poster viewing and provides people with the opportunity to offer feedback directly to poster authors.

Posters will be available to view over several weeks. Each day during National Healthcare Quality Week, the top three posters in each STEEP principle will be shared in a live lunchtime zoom event.

Poster submitters will identify which STEEP principle the poster highlights and if the poster incorporates an intervention to address health equity and equitable care. Equity is a fundamental cross-cutting component of all quality.

Posters in early stages or works in progress are permissible submissions.

Poster Templates: 2 Column Template (PPT), 3 Column Template (PPT)

The Principles

STEEP

Safety

Safety must be a property of the system. No one should ever be harmed by health care

Timeliness

Unintended waiting that doesn’t provide information or time to heal is a system defect. Prompt attention benefits both the patient and the caregiver.

Effectiveness

Health care It should match science, with neither underuse nor overuse of the best available techniques

Efficiency

Constantly seeking to reduce the waste – and hence the cost – of supplies, equipment, space, capital, ideas, time, and opportunities

Patient Centeredness

The individual patient’s culture, social context, and specific needs deserve respect, and the patient should play an active role in making decisions about her own care
Ensuring Optimal Outcomes

Equitable Care

Health Equity is when everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires improving access to the conditions and resources that strongly influence health. Health equity requires a focused commitment to eliminating disparities in healthcare, education, safe housing, and freedom from discrimination.2

Equitable Care is care that does not vary in quality because of someone’s race, age, gender, ethnicity, income, geographic location, or any other demographic detail. However, it may vary in practice, because quality care – the right thing at the right time-is sometimes different for different people. Equitable care does not mean treating every patient the same. Instead, equitable care ensures optimal outcomes for all patients regardless of their background or circumstances. And sometimes this requires different care.

Our FY23 Annual Operating Plan under the Quality & Safety Pillar calls for us to: “Empower staff and providers to use available data to improve equitable outcomes for the communities we serve across the care continuum”.

As a result, we aim to reduce health and healthcare disparities, advance health equity and improve the quality of care for all. This requires identifying disparities in process measures and outcomes AND taking responsibility to reduce and eliminate them. Sources