A Modified Delphi Process to Develop Consensus Definitions of Time-Dependent Care by Paramedic Services Systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Just as prospective differentiation between true emergencies and calls for subacute patients is critical to the delivery of prehospital care, retrospective differentiation is critical to research and quality improvement. Determining the acuity of patients based on the type of care they received could complement the vital-sign-based instruments currently popular, yet imperfect. The study aim was to create a consensus definition of time-dependent care and a list of time-dependent interventions in paramedicine.

Methods

The study was a Delphi approach consisting of four rounds of voting by a bi-provincial panel of 22 Canadian key informants representing medical first responders, paramedics, and physicians - first to agree on a definition of time-dependent care - then

SUBMITTER: de Montigny L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12630464 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature