2025 Call for Abstracts

Oral Abstract & Poster Presentation submissions should answer the following questions:

• What is the problem or challenge you identified?
• Describe the intervention you developed or change you implemented to address the problem.
• How did you measure the effects of the change?
• How did you sustain the change?

TQIP Academy: This session will feature presentations from TQIP centers who identified issues using their TQIP benchmark reports and implemented PI projects to address them. For each section below, we ask that you keep the conference theme of Team Works in mind and describe how stakeholders/teammates involved in each portion of the effort. Submissions for this session should answer the following questions: 

1. Identification
   1. How did you identify this as an issue/area of focus?
   2. Please use images of your TQIP Benchmark Report and/or other internal metrics that were used to identify this as an area of interest.
2. Validation
   1. How did you dig into your data to validate that your results described above were correct?
   2. Were there any data quality or documentation issues? Was a specific care issue/strength identified, either in conjunction with a data quality issue or as the sole driver of performance?
3. Action Planning
   1. How did you determine what action to take?
   2. What interventions did you put in place to maintain or change your performance?
4. Evaluation
   1. How did you evaluate the results of the action plan(s)? What were those results?
   2. What did you see in your TQIP report before/after implementing these changes?
   3. What ongoing actions are still taking place to maintain/continue to improve?
   4. How do you know that the improvement is sustained?

VRC Academy: This session will feature presentations from ACS verified trauma centers who addressed non-compliant standards identified during their site visit. For each section below, we ask that you keep the conference theme of Team Works in mind and describe how stakeholders/teammates involved in each portion of the effort. Submissions for this session should answer the following questions: 

1. Identification
   1. Which non-compliant standard/opportunity for improvement identified was in the site visit report?
2. Validation
   1. How did you dig into your processes to validate that your results described above were correct?
   2. Were there any data quality or documentation issues? Was a specific care issue/strength identified, either in conjunction with a data quality issue or as the sole driver of performance?
3. Action Planning
   1. How did you determine what action to take?
   2. What interventions did you put in place to maintain or change your performance?
4. Evaluation
   1. How did you evaluate the results of the action plan(s)? What were those results?
   2. What did you see in your TQIP report before/after implementing these changes?
   3. What ongoing actions are still taking place to maintain/continue to improve?
   4. How do you know that the improvement is sustained?

For all submission types, you may submit abstracts on any QI topic, but we are specifically calling for abstracts on the following topics:

• Change Management
• Data Validation
• Equity
• Geriatrics
• Hemorrhage Control
• High Value Care
• Imaging/Interventional Radiology
• Injury Prevention
• Neurotrauma (TBI/STI)
• Orthopaedic Trauma Care
• Pediatrics
• Performance Improvement
• Registry
• Rural Trauma Care
• Team Works (NEW!)
• Trauma Survivorship
• Trauma Systems/Collaboratives
• Trauma Verification

To submit your abstract, you will first need to create a new user account profile on the abstract submission site. Once submitted, you may return to review or edit your submission prior to the deadline by logging into the abstract submission site using your existing login ID and Access Key.

Submit Your Abstract

The submission deadline is 11:59 pm (Central Time) on June 15, 2025. Abstracts will not be accepted nor revised after the deadline, including changes, deletions, or additions to the author order. Please be sure to include adequate information and objective data, so that your abstract may be properly evaluated.

Notification of abstract acceptance will be sent in September 2025. All committee decisions are final. All abstracts chosen for poster or oral presentation are expected to be presented in-person, on-site in Chicago, IL (no exceptions). Final instructions for poster presenters will be available at the time of notification. If your abstract is selected for an oral presentation or an Academy session, TQIP staff will contact you with more details.