New White Paper: Quality Improvement in Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC)
- Published July 30, 2019
We are very pleased to announce that the most recent white paper, Quality Improvement in Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC), is now available. The purpose of this paper is to describe for EMSC grantees and stakeholders how quality improvement (QI) is an effective method for testing and spreading the delivery of optimal, effective pediatric emergency medicine. This paper gives a brief overview of the QI approach, explores QI measures and the potential approaches to measurement in emergency care, discusses how EMSC actively applies QI to advance its mission, highlights successful examples of QI as applied to improving pediatric emergency care, and discusses opportunities for EMSC stakeholders to actively engage in existing and future QI efforts.