Accuracy of emergency medical dispatchers' subjective ability to identify when higher dispatch levels are warranted over a Medical Priority Dispatch System automated protocol's recommended coding based on paramedic outcome data

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 560-563

  Clawson, Jeff ^a   Olola, Christopher H O ^a   Heward, Andy ^b   Scott, Greg ^a   Patterson, Brett ^a  

^a International Academies of Emergency Dispatch   (United States)

^b LONDON AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; LONDON; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAGE;

EID: 34547598783     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.047928     Document Type: Article

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