Measuring quality of pre-hospital traumatic shock care-development and validation of an instrument for resource-limited settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Improving the quality of pre-hospital traumatic shock care, especially in low- and middle-income countries, is particularly relevant to reducing the large global burden of disease from injury. What clinical interventions represent high-quality care is an actively evolving field and often dependent on the specific injury pattern. A key component of improving the quality of care is having a consistent way to assess and measure the quality of shock care in the pre-hospital setting. The objective of this study was to develop and validate a chart abstraction instrument to measure the quality of trauma care in a resource-limited, pre-hospital emergency care setting.

Methods

Traumatic shock was selected as the tracer condition. The pre-hospital quality of trauma

SUBMITTER: Mould-Millman NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8516037 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature