Greetings from SPUC’s Quality Improvement/Research Committee. Welcome to 2025! We have planned a QI project to meet MOC Part 4 requirements during this calendar year. We hope this opportunity can be helpful in learning quality improvement and relieve some stress of the MOC Part 4 for you.
The title of the project is “A multicenter quality improvement project to decrease unneeded abdominal x-rays in pediatric patients with complaint of abdominal pain or constipation during visits to urgent care centers.”
We need your involvement to make this a “multicenter” project.
Have you ever been curious about your personal rate of abdominal x-rays is for patients with abdominal pain and/or constipation? Now is time to join this project!
When joining SPUC in this project, you will have support from data collection, data review, run chart development and QI learnings to help with successful PDSA cycles.
Our objective for the project is to decrease unnecessary radiographs of patients with abdominal complaints which can facilitate the following:
- Improve financial stewardship by decreasing costs associated with x-rays.
- Improve patient safety by reducing unnecessary radiation exposure.
- Improve efficiency of pediatric urgent care visits by decreasing time spent obtaining unneeded x-rays.
PROJECT TIMELINE
January 2025:
Welcome online meeting: Wednesday January 15, 2025 at noon CST (1 PM EST/10 AM PST) via Zoom.
Click this link to join the Zoom Meeting.
Meeting ID: 921 8493 6280
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February-April 2025:
Three months of baseline data collection and first two online educational sessions regarding QI topics.
May-October:
Two PDSA cycles with monthly data collection and drop-in workgroups monthly. One additional online educational session.
November-December 2025:
Project wrap up, submit to receive ABP MOC part 4 credit.
The project expectations are:
- Watch the educational sessions either in real time or afterwards (these will be recorded)
- Attend monthly workgroup drop-in meetings: March, May, June, July, September, October
- Review 10 of your patients’ charts a month (February to October) and add anonymous data to RedCap.
- Help plan and implement two interventions at your local site.
E-mail Benjamin.klick@chkd.org or rlucas@childrenswi.org to sign up or for more information.
