March

2022

Collaborative Updates

Due to  COVID concerns, we have decided to cancel the May Learning Session. Instead, we will use the Monday May 16^th 2022 as a strategy session with Collaborative Principal Investigators. The next scheduled learning session will happen November 7^th and 8^th 2022 in person in Miami, Florida. Save the date announcements were sent out for the November learning session. If you have any questions email qi@t1dexchange.org

Combined Adult and Pediatrics Call

Thursday, March 24th 11:00am-12:30pm EST

T1DX-QI Recent Publications 

We are happy to share two new accepted publications!

1.Increase in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US: A multi-center analysis (Pediatric Diabetes)

Authors: Risa. M. Wolf, MD, Nudrat Noor, MS PhD, Roberto Izquierdo, MD, Destiny Jett, PA-C, Amanda Rewers, MD, Shideh Majidi, MD, Nicole Sheanon, MD MS, Emily Breidbart, MD, Carla Demeterco-Berggren, MD PhD, Joyce M. Lee, MD MPH, Manmohan K.Kamboj, MD, Osagie Ebekozien, MD MPH

You can view this manuscript using this link!

2. Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Among Patients With Type 1 Diabetes: First vs Later Surges (Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management)

Authors: Mary Pat Gallagher, Saketh Rompicherla, Osagie Ebekozien, Meredith Wilkes, Zoltan Antal, Alexis Jamie Feuer, Nicole Rioles, Nudrat Noor, Liana Gabriel, Grenye O’Malley, Lauren Golden, G. Todd Alonso, Emma Ospelt, Ori Odugbesan, Sarah K. Lyons, Ann Mungmode, Priya Prahalad, Mark Clements, Anna Neyman, Carla Demeterco-Berggren, Robert Rapaport.

Use this link to view the manuscript!

QI Project Spotlight 

We are excited to share that the Rady QI team's CKC High risk T1D QI project was selected as one of the 2021 Exemplars for QI by the American Boards of Pediatrics (ABP). Dr. Demeterco and her team were recognized in the ABP press release for their outstanding QI work. 

We also would like to share that the Alabama team has published their Health Equity CGM Qi project with Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. You can use this link to read about it.

Congratulations to both teams for their hard work in improving care for their patients!

QI Member Highlight

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Center Advocacy Achievement Award: Nana- Hawa Jones, MD

We would like to congratulate and share that Dr. Jones has been awarded the CCHMC Advocacy Achievement  Award. It was stated that "Dr. Jones has been a constant advocate who produces significant, measurable and equitable improvement in outcomes for many individuals with endocrine disorders." We are very proud of Dr. Jones and are thrilled to have her as a member of the collaborative!

QI Portal Plot

QI Portal Update

We now have over 50 resources available in the QI Portal Library! Log in to see new resources, including our own Rady Children’s Hospital’s and Children’s of Alabama’s recent publications to improve equity in A1c and CGM, respectively.  

Now you can access the QI Portal demo video directly in the Portal! Select your name and then Video Tutorial for a brief overview.

User Feature

Name: Carla Demeterco-Berggren, MD

Site: Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego

Years with the T1Dx QIC:  2 years

1. What is your favorite feature in the Portal, and why?
The ability to closely follow our metrics using many of the features included in the Reports has helped our team to identify areas to focus for improvement. I really appreciate that we can look into equity and disparities within each metric which has helped us to focus on and integrate health equity into our diabetes management and QI projects.

 2. Practically speaking, which feature (in addition to the above) do you use most often and why?

“My Dashboard” is a fantastic feature which provides insight into the care provided within our clinic and across all sites. It is invaluable to be able to identify positive outliers so we can learn from each other’s achievements and grow together as a Collaborative.

3. How does the Portal support your improvement efforts?
The Portal allows us to identify areas where we can improve and to check if those improvements we have achieved are being sustained. For example, it has helped us to track the positive results obtained from our QI projects on CGM use and on the Care Navigators Outreach, and prompted our clinic to start a QI project to increase insulin pump use among publicly insured patients.

4. What do you dream the Portal could do that it doesn’t do currently?
The Portal allows us to periodically review and share results with our staff and leadership to motivate and engage all in our QI efforts. It would be very helpful to have a customizable, ready to print, one page report to facilitate sharing results.

Events & Reminders 

Upcoming Opportunities 

1.Here are two grant opportunities from the Helmsley Charitable Trust that may be relevant for your center

1. New efforts to understand relationships between the prenatal development period and initiation of islet autoimmunity (link); and
2. New studies into understanding and therapeutically emulating examples where individuals are naturally protected from developing T1D (link).

2. The abstract submission for the ISPAD 2022 Conference is now open! 

• Please use this link to submit your abstract and to learn more information.

3. The International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), Life for a Child (LFAC) and the University of the Sunshine Coast would like to determine the current roles of health care professionals in delivering type 1 diabetes care.

We invite you to participate in this online survey
Please click on the link for further information: 

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