Overview of quality and safety in emergency medicine

Abdelouahab Bellou^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Institute of Sciences in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences).
² Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
⁵ Global Network on Emergency Medicine, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ European Society for Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Editorial

Abdelouahab Bellou et al. Eur J Emerg Med. 2023.

. 2023 Dec 1;30(6):384-385.

doi: 10.1097/MEJ.0000000000001084. Epub 2023 Oct 24.

Abdelouahab Bellou^{1

2

3

4

5

6}, John Heyworth^{6

7}; ; on behalf of the European Society for Emergency Medicine Working Group on Quality and Safety in Emergency Medicine (EWQSEM)

¹ Institute of Sciences in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences).
² Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
⁵ Global Network on Emergency Medicine, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ European Society for Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

No abstract available

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