Quality Improvement and Safety in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Brandon C Ku; James M Chamberlain; Kathy N Shaw

doi:10.1016/j.pcl.2018.07.010

Quality Improvement and Safety in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Pediatr Clin North Am. 2018 Dec;65(6):1269-1281. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2018.07.010.

Authors

Brandon C Ku¹, James M Chamberlain², Kathy N Shaw³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA. Electronic address: kub@email.chop.edu.
² Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University School of Medicine, 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA.

PMID: 30446062
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2018.07.010

Abstract

Pediatric emergency medicine quality work continues to focus on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's 6 domains of quality, with a need for specific emphasis on equity and patient centeredness. Adopting the principles of high-reliability organizations, pediatric emergency departments should become increasing transparent with benchmarking and collaboration across institutions in order to develop an infrastructure for quality and safety to improve the care of pediatric patients in the emergency department.

Keywords: Benchmarking; Pediatric emergency medicine; Performance measures; Quality improvement; Safety.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Child
Emergency Service, Hospital / standards*
Humans
Patient Safety / standards*
Pediatric Emergency Medicine / standards*
Quality Improvement
Quality of Health Care / standards*