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Assuring quality from the ground up.

J N Eastham
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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.

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Decision Making, OrganizationalEmergency Medical ServicesFloridaInstitutional Management TeamsMarylandPlanning TechniquesQuality Assurance, Health CareJournal Article

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J N Eastham. 1991. Assuring quality from the ground up.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10111406/

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