Authors
Evaline Alessandrini, Kartik Varadarajan, Elizabeth R Alpern, Marc H Gorelick, Kathy Shaw, Richard M Ruddy, James M Chamberlain, Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network
Publication date
2011/5
Source
Academic Emergency Medicine
Volume
18
Issue
5
Pages
519-526
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Description
ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18:519–526 © 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Abstract
Objectives: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has recommended the development of national standards for the measurement of emergency care performance. The authors undertook this study with the goals of enumerating and categorizing existing performance measures relevant to pediatric emergency care.
Methods: Potential performance measures were identified through a survey of 1) the peer‐reviewed literature, 2) websites of organizations and societies pertaining to quality improvement, and 3) emergency department (ED) directors. Performance measures were enumerated and categorized, using consensus methods, on three dimensions: 1) the IOM quality domains; 2) Donabedian’s structure/process/outcome framework; and 3) general, cross‐cutting, or disease‐specific measures …
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