Saturday 27 September: 08:00 - 17:30
Course Director
- Philip Anderson (USA)
- Eric Revue (France)
Maximum number of delegates that can be accommodated: 25
Course description & learning objectives
Background:
Performance and Quality Improvement are among the central administrative challenges facing Emergency Department leaders in all countries. Through a series of lectures and workshops facilitated by experienced faculty, course participants will learn practical approaches for improving performance and quality in their emergency departments. Participants will work together in small groups on concrete problem solving projects designed to produce concrete tools and strategies that can be implemented in the participants’ home institution.
This course is being organized by the International Emergency Department Leadership Institute (IEDLI) www.iedli.org
Learning objectives: At the completion of the course, participants will be able:
- To define quality as it relates to care delivery in the emergency department and discuss key metrics and performance indicators for measuring quality
- To describe the main theories of overcrowding in emergency departments and discuss strategies for mitigating overcrowding
- To discuss the difference between practice guidelines and clinical pathways and identify the key elements of clinical pathways that increase likelihood for success
- To describe the key elements of risk management strategies for responding to errors and adverse events in the emergency department.
A full course agenda is provided below.
Schedule
| 08:30 | Introduction | |
| 08:45 | Lecture 1 Quality Assurance / Improvement | Philip Anderson (USA) |
| 09:30 | Lecture 2 Overcrowding | Eric Revue (France) |
| 10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 | Lecture 3 Clinical Pathways | Stephanie Kayden (USA) |
| 11:15 | Lecture 4 Risk Management | Robert Freitas |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 15:15 | Small Group Session 1 Risk Management | Robert Freitas |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | Small Group Session 2 Clinical Pathways | Stephanie Kayden (USA) |
| 16:30 | Small Group Presentations | |
| 17:00 | Wrap up - closing comments |
National Societies
Albania
Albanian Society of Emergency Medicine
Shoqata Shqiptare e Urgjencës Mjekësore - SH.U.M.
Date of origin: 1 January 2013
Austria 
Belgium
Year of origin: 1995
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Association of Emergency Medicine Physicians of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Udruženje Urgentologa u Federaciji Bosne i Hercegovine
Date of origin: 15 March 2019
Bulgaria 
Croatia
Croatian Society of Emergency Medicine
HZL Hrvatsko Društvo za Hitnu Medicinu
Date of origin: 12 June 1990
Czech Republic
Year of origin: 1994
Denmark
Danish Society for Emergency Medicine
Dansk Selskab for Akutmedicin
Date of origin: 28 September 2006
Estonia
Estonian Society of Emergency Physicians
Eesti Erakorralise Meditsiini Arstide Selts
Date of origin: 30 March 2004
Finland 
France
French Society for Emergency Medicine
Société Française de Médecine d'Urgence
Date of origin: 3 March 1985
Georgia
Georgian College of Emergency Physicians
საქართველოს გადაუდებელი მედიცინის ექიმთა კოლეჯი
Germany
German Association for Emergency Medicine
Deutsche Gesellschaft Interdisziplinäre Notfall- und Akutmedizin (DGINA) e.V.
Greece
Hellenic Society of Emergency Medicine
Ελληνική Εταιρεία Επείγουσας Ιατρικής
Date of origin: 4 December 2002
Hungary
Hungarian Society for Emergency Medicine
Magyar Sürgösségi Orvostani Társaság
Date of origin: 8 April 2000
Iceland 
Ireland
Irish Association for Emergency Medicine
Cumann Leigheas Éigeandála na hÉireann (IAEM)
Date of origin: 29 April 1989
Italy
Italian Society for Emergency Medicine
Società Italiana di Medicina di Emergenza Urgenza (SIMEU)
Year of origin: 2000
Kosovo
Kosovo Society of Emergency Medicine
Shoqata për Mjekësi Emergjente e Kosovës (SHMEK)
Year of origin: 2008
Latvia 
Lithuania
Lithuanian Society for Emergency Medicine
Lietuvos Skubiosios Medicinos Draugija
Date of origin: 3 October 2003
Malta
Association of Emergency Physicians of Malta
Ghaqda Maltija tat-Tobba ghall-Emergenzi
Date of origin: 1 December 2006
Moldova
Society of Emergency Medicine and Disasters Medicine from Republic of Moldova
Asociația Obștească Societatea Științifico-Practică de Medicină de Urgență și Catastrofe din Republica Moldova
Netherlands
Dutch Society of Emergency Physicians
Nederlandse Vereniging van Spoedeisende Hulp Artsen
Year of origin: 1999
Norway 
Poland
Polish Society for Emergency Medicine
Polskie Towarzystwo Medycyny Ratunkowej
Year of origin: 1999
Portugal
Portuguese Society of Urgent and Emergency Medicine
Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina de Urgência e Emergência
Romania 
Serbia
Serbian Society of Emergency Physicians
Društvo lekara urgentne medicine Srbije
Date of origin: 13 November 2014
Slovakia
Slovak Society of Disaster and Emergency Medicine
Slovenská spoločnost' urgentnej medicíny katastrof
Date of origin: 4 October 1997
Slovenia
Slovenian Emergency Medical Association
Slovensko združenje za urgentno medicino
Date of origin: 29 June 2016
Spain
Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine
Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias
Date of origin: 8 March 1988
Sweden 
Switzerland 
Turkey 
Ukraine 
United Kingdom