Greene C S
Department of Emergency Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
Emerg Med Clin North Am. 1992 Aug;10(3):611-25.
The approach emergency medical service (EMS) systems take to quality assurance and quality improvement is evolving rapidly. Methods of quality assurance that have been applied to the prehospital care environment are reviewed. Impediments to effective quality assurance strategies are discussed and an overview of the scope of the activities and resources necessary to perform this task is presented. The potential efficacy and limitations of quality improvement in EMS are also discussed.
紧急医疗服务（EMS）系统用于质量保证和质量改进的方法正在迅速演变。本文回顾了应用于院前护理环境的质量保证方法。讨论了有效质量保证策略的障碍，并概述了执行这项任务所需的活动范围和资源。还讨论了EMS中质量改进的潜在功效和局限性。
