Video Streaming or Telephone Communication During Emergency Medical Services Dispatch Calls: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Video streaming during emergency medical calls may enhance triage precision and optimize health resource allocation. However, its clinical safety and effect on key outcomes remain unexplored in randomized clinical trials.

Objective

To assess whether video streaming during emergency calls reduces highest-urgency ambulance dispatches while ensuring safety through outcomes such as 24-hour hospital admissions among initially nonconveyed patients, mortality, and intensive care unit (ICU) admissions.

Design, setting, and participants

This cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted across 4 months (January 1 through April 30, 2023) at a single emergency medical dispatch center serving 1.3 million residents in the Central Denmark Region. Matched pairs of dispa

SUBMITTER: Gude MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12215568 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature