We are looking forward to seeing everyone next week at the 2022 Learning Session. Please use this link to view our Learning Session page where you can find the schedule, presentation topics and the FAQ section. If you are attending virtually and did not receive the Zoom link, please email qi@t1dexchange.org.
We are excited to share the 2022 T1D Exchange Award recipients. The winners will be recognized and celebrated at the Learning Session Monday dinner reception. Congratulations to our winners for being great examples of QI leaders!
The Outstanding Pediatric PI Award
Faisal Malik, MD, MSHS
The Outstanding Pediatric Team Award
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
The Outstanding QI Champion Award
Jeniece Ilkowitz RN, MA, CDCES
The Outstanding Adult PI Award
Francesco Vendrame, MD, PhD
The Outstanding Adult Team Award
Boston Medical Center
The Nicole Rioles Outstanding Parent/Patient Advocate Award
Emily DeWit, MASL
T1DX-QI Recent Publications
In the past month, there have been four new publications!
Factors Associated With Improved A1C Among Adults With Type 1 Diabetes in the United States
Authors: Halis K Akturk, Saketh Rompicherla, Nicole Rioles, Marisa Desimone, Ruth S. Weinstock, Sonya J. Haw, David C. Ziemer, Jane K. Dickinson, Shivani Agarwal, Osagie Ebekozien
Name: Faisal Malik, MD, MSHS and Alissa Roberts, MD
Site: Seattle Children’s Hospital
Years with the T1DX-QI: 3
1. What is your favorite feature in the Portal and why?
Our favorite feature in the Portal is the health equity plot feature that was added this summer. As a diabetes center, we have been actively working on justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, particularly around diabetes technology use. It’s so wonderful to have real-time monthly data on CGM use and insulin pump use that we can break down by race/ethnicity to inform our QI efforts.
2. Practically speaking, which feature (in addition to the above) do you use most often and why?
We use the “My Reports” feature the most since it allows us to readily access reports that we’ve created specifically for our site related to our QI priorities. We love the “My Reports” features because we did not have the means to robustly visualize our data by race/ethnicity, gender, language, and insurance before we had access to the QI Portal.
3. How does the Portal support your improvement efforts?
The ability to compare our performance with other pediatric diabetes centers has been incredibly helpful in supporting our QI efforts. We love being able to visualize how other sites are performing on some of the important diabetes QI metrics. It is inspiring for our internal QI efforts and importantly, helps us set realistic goals for what might be feasible. This also has informed conversations with hospital leadership as it helps us advocate for resources that may be needed for us to achieve outcomes similar to peer institutions.
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4. What do you dream the portal could do that it doesn’t do currently?
As a team, we would love to have the QI Portal provide information about how each center is collecting data for each QI metric. We have found that there are some measures, such as diabetes technology use, which can be extracted from different sources (e.g., patient-reported data, provider-reported data, prescription data). It would be helpful to have more granularity with respect to data collection to help us compare our outcomes to other centers. We believe this would also facilitate sites to learn from one another on how others are leveraging their clinic’s infrastructure to collect T1DX-QI data.
Q&A Corner
There have been several newly asked questions on the internal member website. Please use this link to respond and see all questions.
1. We are trying to restructure our clinic RN staff at Rady’s. Our clinic RNs currently carry diabetes patients as well as endocrine patients. We are wondering if other centers within the Exchange have their nursing staff separated into diabetes educators with separate endocrine nurses. And are there separate diabetes educators in addition to staff RNs?
Name: Andrea Huber, RN Clinic: Rady Children’s Hospital Adult or Pediatric Population: Both Date: 10/26/2022
2. Does anyone else use loaner pumps?
- If so, do you have a policy for how they are utilized?
Name: Olivia Docter , BSN, RN, CDCES
Clinic: Barbara Davis Center Pediatrics
Adult or Pediatric Population: Both
Date: 10/14/2022
3. Is there a way to generate health screening surveys automatically in EPIC?
Name: Marina Basina , MD,
Clinic: Stanford Adult
Adult or Pediatric Population: Both
Date: 10/11/2022
Events & Reminders
Upcoming Opportunities
1.) Emory University are hosting a NIDDK GCDTR Regional Core Workshop at the University of Miami (live and online) on Wednesday November 9, 10am - 12pm. The conference theme is "Equity and Access in Diabetes Technology Workshop". We encourage you to join us in person or virtually. Click on this link for more information.
2.) Mt Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital is hosting the 21st Annual Pediatric Endocrinology andDiabetes CME Symposium on Monday November 14, 2022 8:30am – 12:45pm EST online. As members of T1DX group, you can receive 50% off your registration using the code T1DX22. Information on registration, schedule, and CME credit can be found using this link.
3.) We are looking for MD's DO's NP's and PA's with at least two years of experience to answer this short survey on attitudes and beliefs on autoantibody screening. If you are interested use this link to access the survey.
4.) Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU is looking for interested pediatric centers to contribute to creating a reimbursement bundle for T1D so education and psychosocial care is covered. Please reach out to qi@t1dexchange.org and we will get you in touch with Dr. Gallagher.
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