A blueprint for building an emergency department quality improvement and patient safety committee.

ABSTRACT: The field of quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS) has matured significantly in emergency medicine over the past decade. From standalone, strategically misaligned, and incoherently designed QIPS projects years ago, emergency department (ED) leaders have now recognized that developing a more robust QIPS infrastructure helps prioritize and organize projects for a greater likelihood of success and impact for patients and the system. This process includes the development of a well-defined, accountable, and supported departmental QIPS committee. This can be achieved effectively using a deliberate and structured approach, such as the one described by Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter in his seminal work, "Leading Change." Herein, we present a blueprint using this framework an

SUBMITTER: Chartier LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8808466 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature