Long-term effects of a prehospital telemedicine system on structural and process quality indicators of an emergency medical service.

ABSTRACT: The benefits of a telemedical support system for prehospital emergency medical services include high-level emergency medical support at the push of a button: delegation of drug administration, diagnostic assistance, initiation of therapeutic measures, or choice of hospital destination. At various European EMS sites telemedical routine systems are shortly before implementation. The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term effects of implementing a tele-EMS system on the structural and procedural quality indicators and therefore performance of an entire EMS system. This retrospective study included all EMS missions in Aachen city between 2015 and 2021. Regarding structural indicators of the EMS system, we investigated the overall number of emergency missions with tele-EMS and onsit

SUBMITTER: Schroder H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10764932 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature