The reliability and accuracy of operational system data in a nationwide helicopter emergency medical services mission database.

ABSTRACT: AIM:The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and accuracy of documentation in FinnHEMS database, which is a nationwide helicopter emergency service (HEMS) clinical quality registry. METHODS:This is a nationwide study based on written fictional clinical scenarios. Study subjects were HEMS physicians and paramedics, who filled in the clinical quality registry based on the clinical scenarios. The inter-rater -reliability of the collected data was analyzed with percent agreement and free-marginal multi-rater kappa. RESULTS:Dispatch coding had a percent agreement of 91% and free-marginal multi-rater kappa value of 0.83. Coding for transportation or mission cancellation resulted in an agreement of 84% and free-marginal kappa value of 0.68. An agreement of 82% and a kappa value of 0.

SUBMITTER: Heino A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6792230 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature