Call for Abstracts

The deadline has passed and abstract submission for the 2024 ACS Quality and Safety Conference is closed. Thank you to all who submitted. See you in Denver!

Missed the deadline? Want to submit next year? Refer to the submission criteria below as a guide.

Authors are encouraged to submit a 250-word abstract for poster and/or podium presentation. The abstract should relate to surgical quality improvement initiatives, including the development, implementation, or validation of best practices. We are also interested in operational best practices relating to data collection and reporting. Abstracts may use data from a nationally recognized surgical quality data registry sponsored by a surgical society. The requirement data come from only the ACS Quality Programs has been lifted. There is no limit on the number of abstracts per author.

Please note: Abstracts that have been submitted or recently presented at other meetings are eligible for presentation at the ACS Quality and Safety Conference. Previous presentation of a paper does not prohibit the presentation or publication of the material at the ACS Quality and Safety Conference.

We welcome submissions from the following categories:

• Bariatric
• Cancer
• Collaboratives
• Education
• Efficiency and Value
• Emergency General Surgery (EGS)
• Environmental Sustainability in Surgery
• Geriatric
• Health Equity and Access
• Healthcare Informatics for Quality
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Surgery
• Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs)/Patient Centeredness
• Pediatrics
• Policy
• Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Surgical Infection Control
• Surgical Technology and Innovation
• Surgical Potpourri
• Trauma/Acute Care
• Vascular

If you have questions, email acsqsconference@facs.org or call 312-202-5319.