Transversal Survey of Emergency Medicine Policy and Quality Metrics in Japan's Regional Health Care Plans.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

It is essential to establish appropriate medical quality metrics and make improvements to safely and efficiently deliver optimum emergency medical services. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) recommends prefectures to establish numerical quality metrics in their regional healthcare plans (RHCP). The 7th RHCP was issued by the MHLW in 2017 along with a notice of planning in covering the six-year period from 2018 to 2023. In this descriptive study, the emergency medicine policies in the 7th RHCP of each prefecture were analyzed from a quality improvement perspective.

Method

The authors examined the chapters on emergency medicine in the RHCPs of 47 prefectural governments for the overall structure, cost-benefits, and connection to community-based inte

SUBMITTER: Iida A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10407299 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature