[CSEMSmail] Improving System Quality - Regional PI Program

[Matt Lawler]

Improving System Quality

Regional performance improvement project strives to better EMS system

 
PI Drop Box in each ED starting October 1

Regional PI Topics

- King LT Airway
- Aspirin for chest pain
- 12-lead acquisition
- Trauma triage 

Since the beginning of the year, two subcommittees of the MCRC, the
General and Trauma Performance Improvement (PI) committees, have been
working to develop regional performance improvement plans, one for
trauma and the other for general performance improvement.  The
objectives of the committees are to conduct regional QA and encourage
local agency medical incident reviews; collect patient care statistics
to evaluate system effectiveness and identify trends; and provide
constructive feedback on medical quality improvement to all EMS
professionals within the CSEMS Council region.  Starting October 1,
2008, the Council will implement a new way to collect data on the four
types of calls the committees are reviewing.  There will be PI drop
boxes in each emergency department in the region.  We are asking EMS
providers to complete a card and place in the box any time a call is run
that meets the criteria listed in the box above.  There are other
mechanisms to report the data that are outlined on the PI page.

 Performance Improvement Page <http://www.csems.vaems.org/pi>  

 

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