title: Quality in clinical practice.
abstract: This paper reports the proceedings of the discussion panel assigned to look at clinical aspects of quality in emergency medicine. One of the seven stated objectives of the Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference on quality in emergency medicine was to educate emergency physicians regarding quality measures and quality improvement as essential aspects of the practice of emergency medicine. Another topic of interest was a discussion of the value of information technology in facilitating quality care in the clinical practice of emergency medicine. It is important to note that this is not intended to be a comprehensive review of this extensive topic, but instead is designed to report the discussion that occurred at this session of the consensus conference.
authors.affiliation: Section of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA. david.cone@yale.edu
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Cone
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Nedza
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Augustine
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Davidson
mesh_terms: D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D004638:Emergency Treatment / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States