Quality measurement in physician-staffed emergency medical services: a systematic literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Quality measurement of physician-staffed emergency medical services (P-EMS) is necessary to improve service quality. Knowledge and consensus on this topic are scarce, making quality measurement of P-EMS a high-priority research area. The aim of this review was to identify, describe and evaluate studies of quality measurement in P-EMS.

Data sources

The databases of MEDLINE and Embase were searched initially, followed by a search for included article citations in Scopus.

Study selection

The study eligibility criteria were: (1) articles describing the use of one quality indicator (QI) or more in P-EMS, (2) original manuscripts, (3) articles published from 1 January 1968 until 5 October 2016. The literature search identified 4699 records. 4543 were excluded after

SUBMITTER: Haugland H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6387994 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature