Course Goals
The goals of EQIPP: GERD course include:
By the end of this course, you will
- Be familiar with the following:
- 2018 Pediatric Gastroesophageal Reflux Clinical Practice Guidelines: Joint Recommendations of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) and the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN).
- AAP 2013 Clinical Report, Gastroesophageal Reflux: Management Guidance for the Pediatrician
- Help you create plans for improvement to address gaps identified in key clinical activities of your healthy supervision visits. You will collect baseline and follow-up data as you work to improve care and processes through Plan, Do, Study, and Act (PDSA) cycles.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, you will:
- Be familiar with the following:
- Recognize how the following key activities contribute to high-quality, ongoing pediatric care of patients with reflux conditions.
- Diagnosis and Testing: Accurate diagnosis of GERD, recognition of red flag or warning signals, knowing when diagnostic tests are appropriate
- Treatment: Knowing when nonpharmacologic treatment is recommended and when and what pharmacologic treatment is recommended
- Referral: Knowing when to appropriately refer a patient to a pediatric subspecialist and what referral information is needed
- Education, Follow-up, and Communication: Providing anticipatory guidance and GER/GERD education resources to patients and family; follow-up to ensure treatment is successful, and communicating effectively with other care team physician members and the patient/family including maintaining a care plan
- Measure and improve care delivery and processes for the above key activities by doing the following:
- Collect and analyze baseline data to establish a starting point for improvement.
- Identify 1 or more performance gaps in key clinical activities of care.
- Create an improvement plan for closing identified gap(s) by clarifying the improvement idea to be tested:
- AIM: What are we trying to improve or accomplish?
- MEASURES: How will we know that a change made is an improvement?
- CHANGES: What changes can we make that will result in improvement?
- Test your ideas quickly on a small scale so you can determine if the changes lead to improvement.
- Collect and analyze 2 follow-up data cycles to measure the results of your test.
Determine how to sustain successful changes to systematically integrate them into the culture, processes, and workflow of your practice.