Development and testing of Australian prehospital care quality indicators: study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Historically, ambulance services were established to provide rapid transport of patients to hospital. Contemporary prehospital care involves provision of sophisticated 'mobile healthcare' to patients across the lifespan presenting with a range of injuries or illnesses of varying acuity. Because of its young age, the paramedicine profession has until recently experienced a lack of research capacity which has led to paucity of a discipline-specific, scientific evidence-base. Therefore, the performance and quality of ambulance services has traditionally been measured using simple, evidence-poor indicators forming a deficient reflection of the true quality of care and providing little direction for quality improvement efforts. This paper reports the study protocol for the

SUBMITTER: Pap R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7398091 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature