SPUC members:  We have planned a QI project for the 2025 calendar year.  This project will run from February through October 2025 and will grant ABP MOC part 4 credit. The purpose of this project is to decrease the unnecessary use of abdominal x-rays in patients with constipation or abdominal pain.  We need your involvement to make this project a “MULTICENTER” project.  When joining SPUC in this project, you will have support with data collection, data review, run chart development and QI learnings to help have successful PDSA cycles. By decreasing unnecessary radiographs of patients with abdominal complaints we hope to facilitate the following: Improve financial stewardship by decreasing costs associated with x-rays. Improve patient safety by reducing unnecessary radiation exposure. Improve efficiency of pediatric urgent care visits by decreasing time spent obtaining unneeded x-rays. Here is our project timeline: January 2025: Welcome online meeting February-April 2025: 3 months of

SPUC members Tiffany Addington, Jennifer Johnson, Amanda Montalbano and Emily Montgomery wrote a response to an article in Pediatric Emergency Care The article was called “Pediatric Referrals to an Emergency Department From Urgent Care Centers.”  Read the published response letter here.