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The Paediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Community (PIPSQC) is an informal, international community of professionals who share a passion for patient safety and quality in paediatrics, and who interact together across organizational and geographic boundaries, to advance learning and improvements in these areas.

This complex adaptive system emerged in 2006 as a result of a pre-symposium invitational gathering before SickKids' Second Annual Paediatric Patient Safety Symposium.

Those invited represented four countries on three continents. We recognized that our patient safety concerns were universal. The results of the roundtable discussion can be found in the Paediatric Patient Safety International Collaborative document. At dinner that night, the Paediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Community was officially formalized and PIPSQC (pip·squeak) was born.

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NEWS

Paediatric Admission Guidance in the Emergency Department (PAGE) Score

1/22/2021 9:45 PM | Vieve Paisley, MD

PSMF - Pediatric Adverse Drug Events APSS Blueprint

1/15/2021 10:00 PM | Vieve Paisley, MD

Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management

1/8/2021 5:58 PM | Vieve Paisley, MD

Electronic early warning system introduced by Alder Hey Children's reduced unplanned admissions to critical care

12/23/2020 9:01 PM | Vieve Paisley, MD

Characterising the types of paediatric adverse events detected by the global trigger tool - CareTrack Kids

12/17/2020 4:25 PM | Vieve Paisley, MD

SickKids launches third phase of Choosing Wisely recommendations to curb unnecessary tests and treatments

12/11/2020 10:15 PM | Vieve Paisley, MD

Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the United States

12/5/2020 2:53 PM | Vieve Paisley, MD

All Children Thrive Learning Network

11/27/2020 6:39 PM | Vieve Paisley, MD

CPSI - The Canadian Quality & Patient Safety Framework for Health Services

11/23/2020 8:15 PM | Vieve Paisley, MD

NQOCN - 'Using Quality Improvement Approaches to Advance Health and Health Care' by Dr. Uma Kotagal

11/17/2020 5:13 PM | Vieve Paisley, MD

SPOTLIGHT

The Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS) Network is an unparalleled, collaborative effort among children's hospitals working to transform pediatric patient safety in pursuit of an urgent mission: to eliminate serious harm across all children's hospitals. Through implementation of the Network’s best practices, children are being protected from harm. Since 2012, this national effort has saved 13,952 children from serious harm and led to an estimated savings of $249.4 million, with a consistent upward trend in harm prevented every month (as of May 2019).

Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety Results Chart

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PAEDIATRIC PATIENT SAFETY
CEC - Paediatric Quality Program
CHA - Pediatric Quality Award

CHA - Quality and Performance
Child Health Task Force - Quality of Care
Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS)
CPSI - Deteriorating Patient Condition in a Paediatric Setting

European Union Network for Patient Safety and Quality of Care (PaSQ) Joint Action

HRET - Healthcare Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN)

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

International Pediatric Association (IPA) - Quality of Care
International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua)

I-PASS Handoff Study
Irish Paediatric Early Warning System (PEWS)

Joint Commission - Patient Safety
Making it Safer Together (MiST)
National Institute for Children's Health Quality (NICHQ)

National Quality of Care Network (NQOCN) POCQI COP

Patient Safety Movement - Actionable Patient Safety Solutions

PIPSQC - Resources by Topic

PUMA Paediatric early warning systems: Utility and Mortality Avoidance
RCPCH - Meds IQ
RCPCH - QI Central

RCPCH - Safe System Framework for Children at Risk of Deterioration

RCPCH - Situation Awareness for Everyone (S.A.F.E)
RCPCH - Spotting the Sick Child
SafeCare Standards
Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP) - Paediatric
UK Sepsis Trust
WHO - Patient Safety

WHO - Service Delivery and Safety

ANAESTHESIOLOGY

Managing Emergencies in Paediatric Anaesthesia (MEPA)
Wake Up Safe

CARDIOLOGY
Cardiac Networks United

CHILD PROTECTION

AAP - Child Abuse and Neglect
Child Abuse Evaluation & Treatment for Medical Providers
End Violence Against Children - The Global Partnership
International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)
RCPCH - Child Protection
UNICEF - Child Protection

CHILD SAFETY

CDC - Child Safety and Injury Prevention
Children's Safety Network (CSN)
Safe Kids Worldwide
WHO - Child Injuries and Violence

CHILD SURVIVAL

AAP - International Child Health

Coalition of Centres in Global Child Health
Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths: A Promise Renewed (APR)
Healthy Newborn Network (HNN)
IHI - Africa - Ghana's Project Fives Alive!
International Pediatric Association (IPA) - Child Survival
International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP)
OPENPediatrics
SafeCare Standards
Save the Children
UNICEF - Health
UNICEF - Maternal, newborn and child survival
UNICEF - Quality of Care

URC - Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
WHO - African Partnerships for Patient Safety (APPS)
WHO - Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (2016-2030)
WHO - Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
WHO - Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
WHO - Standards for improving the quality of care for small and sick newborns in health facilities

CRITICAL CARE
Coalition for Unplanned Extubation Awareness and Prevention

Virtual Pediatric Systems (VPS)
World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS)

EMERGENCY CARE

National Pediatric Readiness Project (Peds Ready)
Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK)

NEONATAL-PERINATAL

NICHQ - National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (NNPQC)

Vermont Oxford Network (VON)

PATIENT AND FAMILY RESOURCES

PIPSQC - For Patients and Families

SURGERY

ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Pediatric (ACS NSQIP Pediatric)

PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

Standards for improving the quality of care for children and young adolescents in health facilities (2018)
Standards for improving the quality of care for small and sick newborns in health facilities (2020)
Standards for improving quality of maternal and newborn care in health facilities (2016)
Safe Care for Pediatric Patients: A Scoping Review Across Multiple Health Care Settings (Stang et al., 2018)

Using a network organisational architecture to support the development of Learning Healthcare Systems (Britto et al., 2018)
We Will Not Compete on Safety: How Children's Hospitals Have Come Together to Hasten Harm Reduction (Lyren et al., 2018)

AHRQ - National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Chartbook on Patient Safety (2017)

Best Practices in Patient Safety - 2nd Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety (2017)

Child Health PSO 2017 Annual Report

Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety Collaborative Impact on Hospital-Acquired Harm (Lyren at al., 2017)
Top 10 Interventions in Paediatric Patient Safety (Fitzsimons et al., 2015)

BOOKS
Safer Healthcare: Strategies for the Real World (Vincent et al., 2016)

DATABASES

AHRQ Patient Safety Net (PSNet) - Pediatrics

CHA - Patient Safety

CHA - Quality Improvement

PIPSQC - Resources by Topic

JOURNALS

Pediatric Quality and Safety (PQS)

TOPICAL COLLECTIONS

Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics - Patient Safety
Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics - Quality Improvement

Publications of Interest - Overall Catalogue (GOSH, 2014)
WHO - Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health - Documents on quality of care
WHO - Patient Safety - Publications