Quality Matters: Solutions for a Safe and Efficient Emergency Department

by Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Quality Matters: Solutions for a Safe and Efficient Emergency Department serves as a practical handbook and roadmap for quality improvement efforts in emergency departments across the country. Author Shari Welch, M.D. draws on ten years of experience as the quality improvement director for the emergency department at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, a quality improvement consultant for Utah Emergency Physicians, and a fellow at the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research to create this primer for quality improvement efforts in the emergency department. This book concentrates primarily on practical solutions to emergency department problems, and contains a wealth of visual information including tables, charts, and illustrations, including the following: Specific solutions for solving the more common operational problems in the ED Real-world based approach to quality improvement in the ED Summary boxes with performance improvement projects outlined utilizing the QI ideas presented in the chapter Practical ideas that can be adapted to most EDs allows users to develop a portfolio of improvement ideas and a prototype project for implementation in their ED

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599402378
• ISBN13: 9781599402376
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Joint Commission Resources
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"