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SickKids' Patient Safety Symposium: Paediatric Patient Safety Indicators: Moving OUR Dots

Partners in Patient Safety 5th Annual Pediatric Patient Safety Symposium

WHEN - Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM EST

WHERE - Hollywood Theatre at SickKids Hospital

8:00-8:30 Registration and Breakfast

8:30–8:45 Welcome and Introduction

Setting the Stage

8:45- 9:15 Dots are hot. But what are they?
Peter Lachman, MD, FRCP, Consultant Paediatrician, Consultant for Service Redesign and Transformation, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, and Royal Free Hospital Hampstead NHS Trust, London, UK

Little Dots ... Indicators:

9:15- 9:35 Dot Talk: The AHRQ’s Paediatric Indicators
Matthew C. Scanlon, MD, Section of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

9:35 – 9:55 Pursuing Canadian Paediatric Patient Safety Indicators
Astrid Guttman, MDCM, MSc, Division of Paediatric Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children, Assistant Professor of Paediatrics and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

9:55 - 10:15 Positive Deviance: A Culture Change Management Approach to Reducing Healthcare Acquired Infections
Michael Gardam, MD, Director of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control , Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Prevention, Toronto, Canada

10:15 - 10:30 Interactive Session/Questions

10:30 - 11:00 Refreshment Break and Poster Session

Bigger Dots ... Serious Adverse Events and Critical Incidents: Two Perspectives

11:00 - 11:20 The Cincinnati Experience
Stephen E. Muething, MD, Director of Clinical Services, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, OH, USA

11:20 - 11:40 The SickKids Experience

11:40 -12:00 Interactive Session and Questions

12:00 -1:00 LUNCH

Biggest Dot ... Mortality

1:00 – 1:30 Lessons in Patient Safety from the Paediatric Death Review Committee
Dr. A.E. Lauwers, MD, CCFP, FCFP, Deputy Chief Coroner, Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario, Toronto, Canada

1:30 - 1:45 Question Session

1:45 - 2:15 Poster Awards and Presentation Session

2:15- 2:30 Refreshment Break

Are We Making a Difference in Hospital Mortality: Two Perspectives

2:30 – 2:50 The Lucile Packard Experience
Paul Sharek, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Quality Management, Chief Clinical Patient Safety Officer, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA

2:50 - 3:10 The Melbourne Experience
Karen Dunn, MD, Paediatrician; Emergency Medicine Fellow, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Senior Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

3:10 - 3:30 Feasibility of a Paediatric Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR)
Canadian Institute for Health Information

3:30 - 4:00 Combined Panel Discussion and Question Session