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Quality Improvement
AUA’s QI efforts aim to provide timely and useful guidance to the field on quality and safety issues relevant to urology.
Quality Improvement Resources
Diagnostic Excellence
The American Urological Association (AUA) highlighted “enhancing diagnostic excellence” as a top priority in its National Quality Agenda and Strategies for Urologic Practice, emphasizing its importance in improving urologic health and urologic health care.
The Role of PSA Screening in Early Detection of Prostate Cancer
In 2023, the AUA received a grant from the Council of Medical Specialty Societies to increase awareness of general principles of diagnostic excellence and address the diagnostic challenges faced by urologists, PCPs, and Black men related to the early detection of prostate cancer.
Engage with Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (E-QIPS)
The Engage with Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (E-QIPS) section cultivates quality improvement and patient safety projects from members of the urological community to highlight QIPS accomplishments, foster QIPS growth, encourage collaboration, and elevate urological care.
Quality Improvement Summit
The Quality Improvement (QI) Summit, a focused educational and collaborative event, brings together healthcare professionals to tackle critical clinical and operational challenges in urology. Attendees explore ways to elevate patient safety, improve care delivery, and establish scalable best practices.
Clinical Consensus Statement (CSS) and Quality Improvement Issue Brief (QIIB)
Clinical Consensus Statements are statements of expert opinion for which there may or may not be supporting evidence available in the medical literature. Quality Improvement Issue Briefs are qualitative assessments on quality or patient safety topics in urology.
Quality Improvement Resource Library
The Quality Improvement Resource Library contains a variety of resources (toolkits, webinars, podcast links, etc.) that focus on quality and safety issues relevant to urology.
Quality Improvement Project Guide
The Quality Improvement Project Guide is designed to provide anyone involved in urologic care delivery with a foundational understanding of quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS) methods and principles.
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