Benchmarking provides a way to make useful comparisons between your performance and the performance of other in EMS or other industries with similar processes. Benchmarks in emergency medical services can also provide a reference for setting performance goals. This segment provides a high level description of benchmarks in emergency medical services use baselines when planning and implementing an emergency medical services quality improvement project. The example used in this segment is in context of EMS STEMI care.

Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds