Updated framework on quality and safety in emergency medicine.

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Quality and safety of emergency care is critical. Patients rely on emergency medicine (EM) for accessible, timely and high-quality care in addition to providing a 'safety-net' function. Demand is increasing, creating resource challenges in all settings. Where EM is well established, this is recognised through the implementation of quality standards and staff training for patient safety. In settings where EM is developing, immense system and patient pressures exist, thereby necessitating the availability of tiered standards appropriate to the local context. METHODS: The original quality framework arose from expert consensus at the International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IF..