Mission

The Mission of the Emergency Medical Error Reduction Group (EMERG) is to facilitate a cultural shift within the emergency medical community to embrace a fully integrated, rapid and continuous improvement effort that reduces the occurrence and impact of accidents and preventable errors on providers, patients and the populations served.

Vision

The Vision of EMERG is to enable providers, industry and patients to work together to find, implement and sustain improvements that make the care and delivery safer, more effective and ultimately without any preventable error. This will be done by sustainable partnerships through the:

• Collection and transparency of data
• Assimilation and sharing of knowledge
• Understanding of importance, opportunity and impact
• Engagement and empowerment of individuals and organizations across the delivery systems
• Implementation of systemic and process improvement efforts
• Facilitation of continuous learning