Variation in emergency medical technician partner familiarity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To characterize patterns of Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) partner familiarity in three Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies. STUDY DESIGN/DATA SOURCES: We utilized a case study design and retrospective review of administrative data from three EMS agencies and 182 EMTs over 12 months. We used the Kruskal-Wallis test and Bonferroni corrected p-values to compare measures of partner familiarity. Measures included the annual mean number of partners, rate of partners per 10 shifts, mean shifts per EMT, and proportion of shifts worked with same partner. We standardized select measures by size of agency to account for a greater number of possible partnerships in larger agencies.

Principal findings

Across all agencies, the mean number of shifts worked annually by

SUBMITTER: Patterson PD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3112292 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature