Testing quality indicators and proposing benchmarks for physician-staffed emergency medical services: a prospective Nordic multicentre study.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:A consensus study from 2017 developed 15 response-specific quality indicators (QIs) for physician-staffed emergency medical services (P-EMS). The aim of this study was to test these QIs for important characteristics in a real clinical setting. These characteristics were feasibility, rankability, variability, actionability and documentation. We further aimed to propose benchmarks for future quality measurements in P-EMS. DESIGN:In this prospective observational study, physician-staffed helicopter emergency services registered data for the 15 QIs. The feasibility of the QIs was assessed based on the comments of the recording physicians. The other four QI characteristics were assessed by the authors. Benchmarks were proposed based on the quartiles in the dataset. SETTING:Nordic phy

SUBMITTER: Haugland H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6858216 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature