International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
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Int. J. Infect. Dis. · Jul 2018
Developing a decision support system for patients with severe infection conditions in pre-hospital care.
To develop and validate a pre-hospital decision support system (DSS) for the emergency medical services (EMS), enabling the identification and steering of patients with critical infectious conditions (i.e., severe respiratory tract infections, severe central nervous system (CNS) infections, and sepsis) to a specialized emergency department (ED) for infectious diseases. ⋯ The development of a specific DSS aiming to identify patients with three different severe infectious diseases appears to give accurate decision support to PENs when steering patients to the optimal level of care.