Brief Educational Intervention Improves Emergency Medical Services Stroke Recognition.

ABSTRACT: Background and Purpose- Recognition of stroke symptoms and hospital prenotification by emergency medical services (EMS) facilitate rapid stroke treatment; however, one-third of patients with stroke are unrecognized by EMS. To promote stroke recognition and quality measure compliant prehospital stroke care, we deployed a 30-minute online EMS educational module coupled with a performance feedback system in a single Michigan county. Methods- During a 24-month study period, a registry of consecutive EMS-transported suspected or unrecognized stroke cases was utilized to perform an interrupted time series analysis of the impact of the EMS education and feedback intervention. For each agency, we compared EMS stroke recognition and quality measure compliance rates, as well as emergency department

SUBMITTER: Oostema JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6476674 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature