Accuracy of prehospital clinicians' perceived prognostication of long-term survival in critically ill patients: a nationwide retrospective cohort study on helicopter emergency service patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Prehospital critical care physicians regularly attend to patients with poor prognosis and may limit the advanced therapies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of poor prognosis given by prehospital critical care clinicians.

Design

Cohort study.

Setting

We performed a retrospective cohort study using the national helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) quality database.

Participants

Patients classified by the HEMS clinician to have survived until hospital admission solely because of prehospital interventions but evaluated as having no long-term survival by prehospital clinician, were included.

Primary and secondary outcome

The survival of the study patients was examined at 30 days, 1 year and 3 years.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Heino A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9115026 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature