SQR-BW publishes quality report 2022
15.08.2023 16:08
Making quality measurable – this is the goal of external quality assurance. Comparison with others helps you to better classify the level of quality you have achieved and to uncover any weak points that may exist. External quality assurance therefore makes a significant contribution to achieving and maintaining a desired quality level. The basis for this has been provided by the evaluations of the “Office for Cross-Agency Quality Assurance in the Baden-Württemberg Emergency Services (SQR-BW)” since its launch in 2012. These days, the SQR-BW is publishing its current quality report 2022. The development of the results over the last Years makes it clear: External quality assurance is an essential support in the development of instruments that help to improve patient care.
“External quality assurance is of course only effective if there is a corresponding willingness to implement quality-improving measures in the facilities and a functioning quality management system can also be used there. Numerous developments in results over the years prove that external quality assurance can contribute to impressive quality improvements under the conditions mentioned. The greatest measurable quality improvements can be seen in the area of process quality. Structural and organizational problems can also be partially identified and made visible with the tools of external quality assurance - but they are much more difficult to influence positively, as can be seen from the example of the renewed extension in the time interval of the pre-hospital period," summarizes Dr. Joachim Koster, new head of SQR-BW, summarizes the developments of the last few years.
Times in the operational sequence, diagnostics, care and transport: In order to evaluate the sequence of emergency operations in the rescue service, many different aspects in the rescue chain must be considered and analyzed. For this purpose, in 2022 the SQR-BW evaluated over two million data sets from 34 control centers, more than a million data sets from emergency ambulance operations and over 300,000 data sets from ground-based and airborne emergency medical operations.
The SQR-BW regularly provides differentiated analyzes on its online portal to those responsible in the rescue service and to the committees responsible for technical supervision. The annual quality report also informs the public about the results of quality assurance in the Baden-Württemberg rescue service.
background information
The body for cross-agency quality assurance in the Baden-Württemberg rescue service (SQR BW) has been operating as a neutral, cross-departmental and cross-agency competence unit since 2012. Its task is to ensure the quality of the emergency services in the interests of the citizens, to identify potential for improvement and to develop measures for optimization.
The SQR-BW, based in Stuttgart, is a professionally independent organizational unit at the Baden-Württemberg Medical Service. It is supported and advised by an advisory board made up of equal numbers of cost and service providers. The State Medical Association and the Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for the emergency services, are also represented on the advisory board.
34 control centers, over 200 emergency doctor locations (including 8 air rescue locations) and around 300 rescue stations provide the database for the work of the SQR-BW.