title: Assuring quality from the ground up.
abstract: Does your EMS system rely primarily on run-sheet reviews and medical-protocol compliance to ensure systemwide quality assurance? If so, other aspects of your service may be neglected. Provider-based quality assurance stresses employee-instituted assessment and improvement of all aspects of a system's operation.
authors: Emergency Health Services Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
authors: J N
authors: JN
authors: Eastham
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000592:standards*; D005431:Florida; D007324:Institutional Management Teams / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008396:Maryland; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*