The effect of a national quality improvement collaborative on prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke in England

Implementation Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Siriwardena, Aloysius N ^a,b   Shaw, Deborah ^a   Essam, Nadya ^a   Togher, Fiona J ^b   Davy, Zowie ^b   Spaight, Anne ^a   Dewey, Michael ^c  

^a EAST MIDLANDS AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^c Freelance statistician   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit and feedback; Interrupted time series design; Performance measures; Prehospital care; Quality improvement; Team training

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CARE BUNDLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COOPERATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; AMBULANCES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; ENGLAND; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT CARE BUNDLES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892707432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-9-17     Document Type: Article

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