title: Quality Care and Patient Safety in the Pediatric Emergency Department.
abstract: Over the past 15 years, with alarming and illustrative reports released from the Institute of Medicine, quality improvement and patient safety have come to the forefront of medical care. This article reviews quality improvement frameworks and methodology and the use of evidence-based guidelines for pediatric emergency medicine. Top performance measures in pediatric emergency care are described, with examples of ongoing process and quality improvement work in our pediatric emergency department.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 4401 Penn Avenue, AOB 2nd Floor, Suite 2400, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA. Electronic address: Johanna.Rosen@chp.edu.
authors.forename: Johanna R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rosen
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 4401 Penn Avenue, Room 6415 AOB, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA.
authors.forename: Srinivasan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suresh
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 4401 Penn Avenue, AOB 2nd Floor, Suite 2400, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA.
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Saladino
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D061214:Patient Safety; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D058996:Quality Improvement; D011787:Quality of Health Care
keywords: Pediatric emergency care; Performance measures; Quality improvement; Quality improvement frameworks and methodology