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The SPROC grant period came to a close in May 2021.Explore the resources and products developed by grantees here. On June 1, 2012, the Health Resources and Services Administration released $1.2 million in grant awards …

Assessing the quality of medical care and identifying opportunities for improvement of care is an important responsibility of medical professionals, as well as all health care facilities. Though children account for 20% of emergency care …

To date, the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has awarded three cooperative agreements to pilot the creation of Pediatric Disaster Care Centers of Excellence (COE) to improve disaster response capabilities for children in …

AHRQ offers free software to help organizations easily use the AHRQ QIs to generate actionable information about the quality of care they provide. The evidence-based AHRQ QIs provide a standard, trusted approach to quality measurement …

The EIIC is focused on improving outcomes for children in emergency situations by using improvement science as the basis for our efforts to address known gaps in the US healthcare system. Our aim is to …

Gap Analysis Example

The emergency department has frequent workflow interruptions, multiple care transitions, and barriers to effective communication. In addition, the high volume of patients, high decision density under time pressure, diagnostic uncertainty, and limited knowledge of patients’ …

One way to accelerate the process and keep a focus on targeted improvements is through rapid cycle methodology

Define quality improvement and its scope and impact in pediatric emergency care, distinguish quality assurance from quality improvement, list critical components of the quality improvement process, illustrate via case presentation a pediatric emergency quality improvement …

Foundational elements of quality improvement

Participants will learn to: Develop communication strategies for hospital and ED leadership Create pediatric-specific policies and protocols Establish pediatric competency initiatives Ensure processes to maintain pediatric equipment and supplies Implement system-level quality improvement interventions

Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinator Toolkit

Roles and responsibilities of a pediatric emergency care physician coordinator.

Why is a Pediatric Emergency Coordinator (PECC) important?

TTAC recently conducted a networking stress test of several common video platforms at a variety of bandwidth speeds and conditions

Children have unique physiological, emotional, and developmental characteristics that require specialized emergency care. Pediatric Readiness is ensuring that every EMS agency and emergency department has the pediatric-specific champions, competencies, policies, equipment, and other resources needed …

The NPRP Assessment gauges an ED's capability to provide high-quality care for children based on the ED's adherence to the latest national guidelines on pediatric emergency care. Assessments are conducted by the EMSC Data Center …

Decision making algorithms for the pediatric patient with minor blunt force head trauma