This conference aims to provide educational content related to quality improvement in healthcare and anesthesiology. Major themes include QI science, performance improvement science, feedback about safety events and implementation of best practices.

To present challenging urology cases to optimize management during monthly conferences. Morbidity and mortality cases are presented on a three-month basis which serves as quality control and for improvement.

To use an interdisciplinary approach for the management of patients with cancer; to ensure best evidence-based care is given. Utilize evidence-based data for treating patients with cancer. Use accurate TNM staging in site specific cancers to improve evidence-based treatment utilizing NCCN guidelines.

The Access Conference series is designed to foster multidisciplinary and inter-specialty communication to create an environment in which the best quality care can be provided for our ESRD patients. The core of the activity is a QA database of all hemodialysis access interventions.

M&M Conferences will review timeline of event (allograft loss, complications, deaths, return to OR, and unanticipated readmissions), identify area where breakdown occurred, identify root cause, review related literature if applicable, identify action items to prevent similar events in future.

The overall goal of this educational activity is to leverage the individual strengths of the Penn Trauma Network sites--Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Lancaster General Hospital, Reading Hospital and Robert Packer Hospital (Sayre, PA)--to improve the quality of patient care and clinical research via authentic collaboration among the sites. Collaboration will occur primarily through video conferencing. Specifically, the educational activities will include: evaluation of risk-adjusted outcomes ...

The purpose of this series is to integrate evidence-based information from literature into current practice, describe current issues in transfusion and apheresis medicine, review safety of blood products based on new data/trial and regulation, and review evidence based transfusion, clinical trials and practice guidelines in an effort to provide optimal patient care.

In Quality Forum we analyze the quality care chasm using quality and safety methodology to create solutions to narrow the gap between ideal and actual care provided. Our Chief Residents present service statistics, case lists, and specific case analysis to generate discussion and QI proposals. This is an interdisciplinary, team-based activity.

The goal of Vascular Surgery M&M conference is to provide a forum for the interprofessional vascular surgery team to explore the management details of particular cases wherein morbidity or mortality occurred. In carefully reviewing the records and specifics of care, a primary goal of these session is to revisit errors to gain insight without blame or derision.

Quality data for all Cardiovascular departments will be reviewed with benchmarking of the data to national registries to identify areas of improvement. Standards of care and appropriate use criteria will be presented and discussed. In an open forum for quality review, interdisciplinary team building will be facilitated. During review of program outcomes, medical error identification avoidance strategies will be discussed.