The QUality of Interhospital Transportation in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine (QUIT-EMR) score: a cross-validation study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Interhospital transports of critically ill patients are high-risk medical interventions. Well-established parameters to quantify the quality of transports are currently lacking. We aimed to develop and cross-validate a score for interhospital transports.

Setting

An expert panel developed a score for interhospital transport by a Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU), the QUality of Interhospital Transportation in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine (QUIT-EMR) score. The QUIT-EMR score is an overall sum score that includes component scores of monitoring and intervention variables of the neurological (proxy for airway patency), respiratory and circulatory organ systems, ranging from -12 to +12. A score of 0 or higher defines an adequate transport. The QUIT-EMR score was tested to h

SUBMITTER: Strauch U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8606780 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature