Quality Matters: Solutions for a Safe and Efficient Emergency Department

Quality Matters: Solutions for a Safe and Efficient Emergency Department serves as a practical handbook and roadmap for quality improvement efforts in emergency departments across the country. Author Shari Welch, M.D. draws on ten years of experience as the quality improvement director for the emergency department at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, a quality improvement consultant for Utah Emergency Physicians, and a fellow at the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research to create this primer for quality improvement efforts in the emergency department. This book concentrates primarily on practical solutions to emergency department problems, and contains a wealth of visual information including tables, charts, and illustrations,