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The Pediatric Anesthesia Quality Improvement Initiative

About Us

Vision

Children receiving perioperative care will receive the safest care with suffer zero preventable harm.

Mission

To drive and support the safest and highest quality of pediatric periprocedural care through

        Continuous clinical care improvement by learning from our adverse events as well as our successes and by engaging with member institutions and using collaborative learning approaches to develop strategies to end preventable harm

        Leveraging our data by maintaining a registry for adverse events and demographic data and using novel and innovative methods to use the data for safety and improvement work

        Education of member institution on improvement science and safety through conference calls, workshops, seminars, mentorship opportunities, site visits, policy statements, newsletters, podcasts and publications

        Advocacy for Qi and safety through collaboration and partnerships with pediatric learning entities such as SPA, APSF, ACS, SPS nationally and ESPA, SPANZA, IAPA internationally

Core values

        Patient centered, child focused

        Excellence in pediatric periprocedural care – safe, high-quality care

        Dissemination of best practices globally

        All teach, All Learn

        Collaboration

        Confidentiality/Protection of patient and institutional level information

        Commitment to clinician well-being and professional development

        Generosity with our learnings and sharing solutions