Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Dec 2016
Which patients should be transported to the emergency department? A perpetual prehospital dilemma.
To examine the ability of paramedics to identify patients who could be managed in the community and to identify predictors that could be used to accurately identify patients who should be transported to EDs. ⋯ Lower acuity patients who could be treated in the community were not accurately identified by paramedics. This process requires further evaluation.
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Emerg Med Australas · Dec 2016
Association between ambulance dispatch priority and patient condition.
To compare chief complaints of the Medical Priority Dispatch System in terms of the match between dispatch priority and patient condition. ⋯ Scope for reducing under-triage and over-triage of ambulance dispatch varies between chief complaints of the Medical Priority Dispatch System. The highlighted chief complaints should be considered for future research into improving ambulance dispatch system performance.