EMS quality assurance: a computerized incident reporting system.
Incident reports are an extremely valuable quality assurance vehicle in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems. Appropriate identification, analysis, and followup of incidents can identify trends and recurrent problems, and change system policy. An urban EMS System utilized a computerized data base program to expedite its handling of a large number of incident reports.
Alameda County Emergency Medical Service District, Oakland, CA 94610.
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