Pediatric Quality Improvement Engagement In The Community Setting

Providing safe, high quality care to pediatric patients is a core goal for all healthcare systems. To this end, robust quality improvement and patient safety methodologies have been developed to improve pediatric patient care in academic medical centers. However, given that the majority of pediatric patients are first seen in emergency departments (EDs) in community hospitals rather than academic pediatric medical centers, there is an urgent need to adapt these methodologies to the community ED environment.
Source: Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research