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
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Emergency Medical ServicesClinical Competence
Clinical Protocols
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Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
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Emergency Medicine Journal
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To establish the accuracy of the emergency medical dispatcher’s (EMD’s) decisions to override the automated Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS) logic-based response code recommendations based on at-scene paramedic-applied transport acuity determinations (blue-in) and cardiac arrest (CA) findings. https://emj.bmj.com/content/24/8/560. 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/emj.2007.047928.ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1136/emj.2007.047928
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