Who We Are
&
What We Do
The Pediatric Injury Quality Improvement Collaborative (PIQIC) initiative provides a forum where pediatric trauma and burn specialists share knowledge and best practices in treating injured pediatric patients.
The collaborative was established in December 2016 by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center (Baltimore, MD) along with Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, OH), Children’s Hospital of Michigan (Detroit, MI), Children’s Mercy Kansas City (Kansas City, MO), and Children’s National Hospital (Washington, DC). Our members include the physicians, psychologists, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, and program managers to ensure that we are advancing all the different aspects of pediatric burn care.
We meet twice annually - at the American Burn Association and Pediatric Trauma Society annual conferences and hold quarterly remote meetings to review difficult cases, discuss performance improvement/ quality improvement projects, and collaborate on multi-center studies. Each center contributes data to a centrally administered database, which allows us to ask and answer bigger questions about pediatric burn care.