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The feasibility and acceptability of a novel low tech intervention to improve pre-hospital data recording for pre-alert and handover to the emergency department

Fitzpatrick, David
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Maxwell, Douglas
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Craigie, Alan
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Emergency Medical Services
 Patient Admission
 Emergency Department
 Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
 Patient Handoff
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Emergency Medicine Journal
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Publications - Scottish Ambulance Service
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/1176
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10.1136/emermed-2019-999.14
Abstract
Poor communication during patient handover is recognised internationally as a root cause of a significant proportion of preventable deaths. Data used in handover is not always easily recorded using ambulance based tablets, particularly in time-critical cases. Paramedics have therefore developed pragmatic workarounds (writing on gloves or scrap paper) to record these data. However, such practices can conflict with policy, data recorded can be variable, easily lost and negatively impact on handover quality. https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/1/e6.1 This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2019-999.14
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