Correlation between the accuracy of the emergency response centre's urgency assessment and emergency medical services non-conveyance: a retrospective register-based study in Finland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In modern emergency medical services (EMS), ambulances increasingly focus on examining and treating the patient at the scene. This has led to increased levels of non-conveyance. In Finland, for instance, approximately 40% of EMS dispatches end up in non-conveyance. As EMS systems evolve, the proportion of non-conveyance could serve as a cost-effective measure to assess the quality of the dispatch criteria, if a link to the performance of urgency assessment would be established. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the proportion of non-conveyance is associated with the test performance levels of the urgency assessment. This investigation was done separately within each dispatch category.

Methods

A retrospective evaluation of the data was conducted

SUBMITTER: Salminen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11481283 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature