The Art of Auditing a Run Report It all starts with a good audit. Understanding the art of auditing a run report is crucial for thorough analysis and insights. The art of auditing an EMS run report is about identifying…
CQI And the Stroke Patient: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Ask many EMS CQI professionals how they CQI stroke calls and you are likely to hear their efforts revolve around recognition, treatment, and stroke alert notifications. Certainly, that is a…
Do I Really Need To Document How I Moved My Patient? In the EMS world, there is increased importance placed on the need for proper documentation. For anyone paying attention for the past several years, many EMS experts have been…
Preventing the Provider Induced Patient Refusal (PIPRs) It has often been said that one of the riskier things an EMS provider can do is to accept and write up a patient refusal. In many cases patients refuse care and later,…
Timely Topics in EMS CQI: The ALS Downgrade Note A 76-year-old male complaining of chest pain after a motor vehicle crash is assessed by the paramedic/basic crew on scene and the medic determines the patient is low likelihood for an…
12 Reasons to Outsource Your EMS QA Program Back in 2005, I had no idea if outsourcing EMS quality improvement was a concept that could work. There were virtually no private companies devoted to performing EMS quality improvement services. I…