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Table 1 Data collection instrument

From: A retrospective quality assessment of pre-hospital emergency medical documentation in motor vehicle accidents in south-eastern Norway

Accident number

Motor vehicle number:

Patient number:

Dispatch criterion

Member from research accident team alerted and dispatched by the EMCC

Y N

 

Motor vehicle accident

   

- suspicion of serious injury or death

   

Patient record retrieved

Police

Y N

 
 

EMCC

Y N

 
 

Ground ambulance

Y N

 
 

Air ambulance

Y N

 

In case of missing EMS records

Hospital/LEMC

Y N

 

Personal identification data

Patient First name

Y N

 
 

Patient Family name

Y N

 
 

Birth date (6-digit)

Y N

 
 

Social security number (11-digit)

Y N

 

Logistic variables

EMCC Unique Identifier Number

Y N

 
 

Accident date

Y N

 
 

Transport destination

Y N Wrong

 
 

Patient encounter times

  
 

Alarm at EMCC

Y N

 
 

Ground/Air ambulance departure from station

Y N

 

Ground/Air ambulance arrival on scene

Y N

 

Ground/Air ambulance departure from scene

Y N

 

Ground/Air ambulance arrival at destination

Y N

Glasgow coma scale (GCS)

GCS exact value documented

Y N

 
 

GCS RTS category

4 3 2 1 0

 
 

GCS RTS category inferred

Y N

 
 

GCS assessments repeated every 20 min

Y N

 

Respiratory rate (RR)

RR exact value documented

Y N

 
 

RR RTS category

4 3 2 1 0

 
 

RR RTS category inferred

Y N

 
 

RR assessments repeated every 20 min

Y N

 

Systolic blood pressure (SBP)

SBP exact value documented

Y N

 
 

SBP RTS category

4 3 2 1 0

 
 

SBP RTS category inferred

Y N

 
 

SBP assessments repeated every 20 min

Y N

 

Variables relevant for mechanism of injury (MOI)

≥ 2 MOI factors documented

 

Y N

 

MOI reported as

Check boxes

Free text

 

Patient location in vehicle

Driver

 
  

Front passenger

 
  

Rear passenger

 
  1. Y N indicates whether variables were documented or not (Y = yes, N = no), for each relevant service