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Quality Corner: Burton’s Rule for Quality Improvement Education

Determining the most common, most serious and most unusual is an excellent way to set immediate priorities for your QI education.

Article • August 17th, 2012

Session Highlights

A roundup of some of the key content presented at the Gathering of Eagles

Article • May 1st, 2012

Quality Corner: Do Your Due Diligence

In EMS, you don’t win points by guessing right. You win points by maintaining a high index of suspicion, finding problems that aren’t so obvious and always erring on the side of caution.

Article • April 5th, 2012

Quality Corner: Beware the Patient Refusal

Failing to fully treat a sick patient is one thing. But leaving a patient behind and not treating them at all after they called 9-1-1 is complete negligence.

Article • March 16th, 2012

Quality Corner--Part 12: Acknowledging the Good

Your quality improvement program should be as encouraging as it is educational.

Article • December 11th, 2011

Quality-Based Reimbursement: Will It Weed Out the Weak?

How Medicare pays for services is changing. What are the implications for EMS?

Article • December 1st, 2011

Quality Corner--Part 10: The Two-Minute EMS Challenge

Check out this coordinated team approach to rapid patient assessment

Article • October 12th, 2011

Quality Corner--Part 9: Assessing Paramedic Quality of Care

How is a medical director or supervisor to assess a paramedic's abilities and quality of care? One of the most reliable and least biased is through an annual skills review and sign-off.

Article • August 19th, 2011

Quality Corner--Part 8: The Medical Director and Quality Improvement

Medical directors are one cog in the QI system, but they are only as important as they make themselves.

Article • June 30th, 2011

Quality Corner--Part 7: CQI as a Career Path

If you are the person who has been promoted, demoted or blackmailed into taking the quality coordinator position, and you are willing to think outside the box, you can dramatically improve the standard of your patient care

Article • June 30th, 2011

Medical Advisory Board vs. Single Medical Director: The Pros and Cons

If you put a premium on the ability to gain broad insight during the decision-making process, then working with a medical advisory board in regard to protocol development and medical oversight, may be your best bet.

Article • May 12th, 2011

Quality Corner--Part 5: Patient Care Standards--A Quality Comparison

When it comes to the quality of patient care standards, EMS has a ways to go to catch up with the rest of medicine

Article • May 6th, 2011

Why Rounding Works

When searching for clinical information, the best source is always the patient or family members. So why do EMS organizations avoid speaking to patients when searching for information about how they are performing?

Article • April 28th, 2011

Quality Corner--Part 4: The 10 Commandments of Quality EMS

These 10 commandments capture key concepts of quality patient care

Article • March 31st, 2011

Quality Corner: Part 3--What Is Quality Care?

Achieving success is easier if you define what success is

Article • March 11th, 2011

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