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Registration Now Open for 2018 ACS Quality and Safety Conference


 


• Trauma Quality Programs, including Pediatrics, Trauma Center Verification, the Trauma Quality Improvement Program, and Performance Improvement and Patient Safety

The conference theme, Partnering for Improvement, will set the tone for the meeting, as presenters and organizers strive to achieve the following:

• Provide a professional forum to discuss and apply the most recent knowledge on quality and safety initiatives in surgery

• Present methods used to analyze data from ACS Quality Programs and demonstrate practical ways to use the data for quality improvement (QI)

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