Description

Overview

This interactive course is designed for clinicians, quality improvement and patient safety professionals, healthcare leaders, and population health teams seeking to integrate health equity into quality and safety efforts. Participants will build practical skills in collecting and analyzing sociodemographic data, identifying disparities, and applying equity-focused approaches to proven QI tools such as SMARTIE aims, fishbone diagrams, PDSA cycles, and funnel plots.

Through expert-led sessions, hands-on workshops, and real-world case studies, learners will gain experience evaluating interventions and designing initiatives that drive equitable outcomes across patient populations. Participants will collaborate with peers and industry experts while exploring best practices in data collection, equity analysis, and improvement strategy development.

Course Format & Dates

This course will be delivered virtually over two live sessions to maximize flexibility and engagement. Participants should register for either Session 1 or Session 2, based on their scheduling preference. Each session consists of two live virtual classes.

Session 1
Part 1: October 27, 9:00 AM–1:00 PM (EST)
Part 2: November 3, 9:00 AM–1:00 PM (EST)

OR

Session 2
Part 1: October 28, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM (EST)
Part 2: November 4, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM (EST)

Participants are expected to attend both parts of their selected session.

Each session will feature a mix of instruction, interactive exercises, and collaborative discussions, allowing participants to apply concepts in real time while connecting with peers and facilitators.

Target Audience

This workshop is intended for healthcare professionals involved in quality improvement who want to integrate health equity into initiatives and organizational strategies.

Ideal participants include clinicians, quality and patient safety professionals, healthcare administrators, operational leaders, and population health or health equity teams.

Participants should have a basic understanding of quality improvement methods, experience working on QI projects, and familiarity with Excel or similar tools for data analysis.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the Health Equity in Practice: Adapting QI Tools to Identify, Measure, and Reduce Disparities course, participants will be able to:

Part I

• Explain foundational concepts related to health equity, patient safety, and healthcare quality, including the social determinants of health, health related social needs, and structural drivers of inequities in care and outcomes.
• Recognize the importance of and best practices for collecting patient sociodemographic data and explain how this information can be utilized to assess and address health disparities.
• Assess the appropriateness and limitations of quality measures used in health equity analyses.
• Conduct and interpret health equity analyses using funnel plots and stratified baseline data to identify potential disparities in patient care and outcomes across sociodemographic groups.

Part II

• Explain how selected traditional quality improvement (QI) tools, processes, and methodologies can be adapted to advance health equity.
• Through case study, apply equity-focused QI tools to design quality improvement initiatives aimed at reducing disparities in care and outcomes.
• Conduct and interpret run chart and statistical process control analyses to evaluate the efficacy of quality improvement initiatives on disparities in care and outcomes.

Registration

To register, please click on the register tab above. If this is your first time registering for a conference at Boston Children’s Hospital, you will need to create an account. Returning users can log in to their account to complete the registration process.

Registration Type	Rate
Physician	$320.00
Healthcare clinicians	$280.00
Administrative Professionals	$280.00

Pre-registration is required. Once you have registered you will receive a confirmation email with a registration receipt. Course access instructions will be sent a few days prior to the course launch. If you have questions or need assistance with registration, please direct all inquiries to cmedepartment@childrens.harvard.edu.

Online Course Cancellation, Transfer & Refund Policy
Due to the proprietary materials and content of each course, online virtual courses orders are NOT eligible for refund, cancellation or transfer.

Other Terms and Conditions:
Online training courses may NOT be transferred to another Participant. Participants have 2 weeks to access any virtual online course content. Participants have until the expiration date to access and complete any enduring material courses. Boston Children’s Hospital CE is not responsible for user technical difficulties including loss of internet, power outages, etc.

Cancellation of Services
Although highly unlikely, in case an event is canceled or postponed, Boson Children’s can provide a full refund or offer a credit towards future events to those who have already registered.

Refund Policy
Refunds will be made in the following ways: For payments received by credit or debit cards, the same credit/debit card will be refunded.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

 

Dietitian

This course has been approved for 8.0 CPEUs. Completion of this RD/DTR profession-specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE=One CPEU). RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their activity log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Nurse

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 8.0 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Occupational Therapists

Occupational Therapists completing this course can claim 8.0 APTA MA CE Credits; all transcripts and/or certificates are the responsibility of the learner to submit to their licensing board.

Pharmacy

This activity carries a maximum of 8.0 contact hours. Pharmacists should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physician

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Physician Assistants

Boston Children’s Hospital has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credits for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 8.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Physical Therapists

Physical Therapists completing this course receive 8.0 APTA MA CE Credits.

Psychology

Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs. This course has been approved for 8.0 continuing education credits.

Social Work

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Boston Children’s Hospital is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.

Boston Children’s Hospital maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 8.0 ACE CE continuing education credits.

Disclosure Policy

Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure Statement

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.