SURGICAL QUALITY & SAFETY COMMITTEE
APSA Committees carry out a number of different critical functions for the association.
Vision: a declaration of mid- or long-term goals. The vision of the APSA Quality and Safety Committee is to improve the quality and safety of all of children’s surgery. The committee will serve the APSA membership as the leaders, innovators, and resource for patient safety and the highest quality of care through education, training, and mentorship. Mission: statement of purpose. The overall mission of the Quality and Safety Committee is to develop, support and promote initiatives and programs that serve to improve the quality and safety of pediatric surgical care. The purpose of the committee is to: – Educate the APSA membership on the fundamental principles of patient safety & quality improvement. – Promote participation in programs that monitor quality & safety in surgical practice, particularly those that provide a benchmarking framework for comparative performance analyses and collaborative knowledge-sharing. – Support efforts that promote high-value surgical care, with an emphasis on improving outcomes while at the same time reducing resource utilization. – Define safety standards and other quality benchmarks for pediatric surgical conditions. -Identify disparity in regional access to pediatric surgery.
The APSA Quality and Safety Committee aims to develop, support and promote initiatives that lead to improvements in the quality of pediatric surgical care. The committee encourages participation in programs that measure and monitor quality and safety in surgical practice. The committee works to define safety standards and other quality benchmarks for pediatric surgical conditions, and to provide educational opportunities for APSA membership on the principles of quality improvement.
To support its mission, the APSA Surgical Quality and Safety Committee has created the following resources exclusively for APSA members:
- Quality & Safety Toolkit – everything you need to implement a QI project, including contact lists of surgeon implementers, protocols, patient and provider education, and published outcomes.
- Resources for quality and safety education – links to resources, seminars, checklists, safe handoffs and other team-based safety interventions
- ACS verification – learn about the Task Force for Children’s Surgical Care