Illinois — Targeted Issue

Quality Improvement in Emergency Medical Services for Children

March 1, 2001 - Feb. 29, 2004

Grant Number
H34MC00096
Project Overview
Goal 1: Enhance statewide emergency department/EMS pediatric CQI capabilities. Objectives: (1) ensure that each of the eleven EMS regions have a formalized CQI subcommittee of their EMS Regional Advisory Board; (2) facilitate conduction of one CQI activity in each EMS region annually; (3) develop an EMSC quality improvement educational model.
Goal 2: Conduct a pediatric interfacility transfer quality improvement monitoring activity in two EMS regions within the state. Objectives: (1) develop and pilot a project monitor tool; (2) collect and analyze project data and develop reports; (3) develop an interfacility transfer educational workshop and transfer resource document; (4) increase to 50% the number of hospitals participating in the facility recognition process that have interfacility transfer agreements for critically ill and injured pediatric patients
Institution
Loyola University Chicago
Main Contact
Award Amount
$586,436

Contacts

Name Role(s) Phone Email
Evelyn Lyons, RN, MPH
  • Principal Investigator
(312) 793-1234 evelyn.lyons@illinois.gov

Disseminations

Title Type Publication/Event Published/Presented Identifier Details
A statewide model program to improve emergency department readiness for pediatric care Research Paper/Publication Annals of Emergency Medicine 2009
Guidelines for the inter- and intrahospital transport of critically ill patients Research Paper/Publication Critical Care Medicine 2004