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June 10, 2021
These past 18 months have been challenging for all of us caring for patients, managing departments and keeping our families safe.
The timely administration of antibiotics has a well-established benefit in serious bacterial infections, including sepsis, bacteremia and meningitis.
Greetings QIPS members! With interest in quality improvement and patient safety growing, so too is the list of terms and acronyms – and so the QIPS glossary (with links to outside source material) is ...
Acute post-resuscitation debriefing is a foundation of high-performing teams. Studies in have reported on the widespread prevalence of secondary trauma in emergency personnel.
We believe the work you do in quality roles for your hospitals is valuable and should be compensated accordingly.
Your ACEP Board of Directors has been diligently digesting, analyzing, and implementing concrete solutions to address a recently released workforce study which – for the first time in history - predic...
At ACEP, QIPS has a seat at the table—the council table! The ACEP council is a legislative body similar to the U.S. House of Representatives.
September 10, 2020
We are happy to let you know that the Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Section (QIPS) is sending a call for applications to the 2020 Resident Quality Award and a Postgraduate Quality and Service A...
The ACEP Council meeting is just around the corner and QIPS is excited to be co-sponsoring two resolutions with the American Association of Women Emergency Physicians (AAWEP) section.
“The QIPS section is working to create a QI Curriculum for Emergency Medicine Residency programs.
As my time as the Website Editor for QIPS is coming to an end, I wanted to share some information about new and upcoming changes to make to the website benefit our members.
There is so much out there on COVID-19 both reputable and not. We have put together some high yield links on the QIPS website and are summarized here.
What a crazy year it has been! I hope you and you families are safe and healthy.
It is hard to believe it is almost time for the annual QIPS section meeting in October.
July 22, 2020
QIPS wants to support the work you are doing and highlight it to the broader readership. If you have worked on a project related to QI and patient safety please send us a summary for upcoming newslett...
It feels like a whole different world since the last newsletter in February. We have all been forced to adapt our personal and professional lives for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Each year we elect officers that lead the QIPS Section business and activities throughout the year.
Jean Scofi, MD MBA is completing her fellowship in Emergency Medicine Administration at the Yale School of Medicine in June 2020.
We are happy to let you know that the Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Section (QIPS) is sending a notification for applications to the 2020 Resident Quality Award.
In January 2020 we surveyed all of you to better guide our approach to this year. While we were slightly waylaid by COVID-19 the results are in and summarized.
February 18, 2020
Larissa May, MD, MSPH is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of ED and Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship at UC Davis Health.
Alicia Pilarski, DO is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Happy New Year QIPS Members! In the spirit of continuous quality improvement, I hope that 2020 is an even better year for you than 2019.
February 6, 2020
I am happy to bring to you the first QIPS newsletter of 2020.
I am excited to serve as Chair of the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) section for the upcoming year.
American College of Emergency Physicians
