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TQIP Annual Conference

2026 Call for Abstracts

The 2026 TQIP Annual Conference Call for Abstracts will open April 15. An email announcement will be sent to all enrolled TQIP participants on April 15 with submission instructions. All abstracts received will be reviewed and considered for poster presentation during the TQIP Annual Conference, November 13–15 in Anaheim, CA.

TQIP Academy and VRC Academy sessions are returning this year! For more information on these submission types, please refer to the Submission Types section below. We may select some abstracts for development as case studies or oral presentations during the conference.

Please note: All abstracts chosen for poster or oral presentation are expected to be presented in-person, on-site in Anaheim (no exceptions).

Key Dates

  • April 15: Submission window opens
  • May 31: Submission window closes (11:59 pm CT)
  • Early August: Abstract acceptance notification sent to submitters
  • September 20: Confirmation of acceptance due
  • November 13–15: 2026 TQIP Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA

This year’s TQIP Conference theme, Collaboration: Better Together, is both a philosophy and a call to action to break down silos, deepen partnerships, and elevate the quality of care for every patient. No single provider, department, or institution can address the full complexity of trauma care alone. We know that progress happens when diverse perspectives unite around a shared goal. By working together, we can share best practices and drive meaningful, data-informed improvements across the trauma continuum. Collaboration fosters innovation, strengthens communication, and builds more resilient systems of care to advance trauma care and improve patient outcomes. Together, we are better.

This is your chance to share with other TQIP centers all the interesting initiatives you have put in place at your hospital. We want to know what internal performance improvement efforts you have embarked on and how you have been using TQIP in your center.

Determinations will be made based on subject matter, strength of PI process including loop closure, and the use and strength of data. Those who had posters and presentations last year are encouraged to resubmit with additional outcome data or loop closure.

Submission Types

Oral & Abstract Poster Presentation

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 Collaboration: Better Together in mind and describe how stakeholders/teammates were 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 Collaboration: Better Together in mind and describe how stakeholders/teammates were 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 was identified 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?

Important Information

Submission Topics

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
  • Registry
  • Rural Trauma Care
  • Trauma Survivorship
  • Trauma Systems
  • Trauma Verification
  • Collaboration: Better Together (NEW!)
  • AI/Technology-enabled Care (NEW!)

 

Submission Deadline

The submission deadline is 11:59 pm (Central Time) on May 31, 2026. All author disclosures must be completed prior to submitting your abstract. 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.

Abstract Notification

Notification of abstract acceptance will be sent in August 2026. All committee decisions are final. All abstracts chosen for poster or oral presentation are expected to be presented in-person, on-site in Anaheim, CA (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.

If you have any questions, please contact us at acstqipconference@facs.org.