Table 5 Alternatives for documenting patient physiology in seven different ground ambulance record templates
Exact values | RTS categories | Broadly defined categories | Clinical descriptions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Patient physiology | Chart | Check boxes | Check boxes | Free text field | ||
Consciousness | GCS | 6/7 | GCS | 0/7 | 3/7 | 7/7 |
Repeated field | 3 | 0 | 1 | |||
Respiration | RR | 4/7 | RR | 3/7 | 5/7 | 7/7 |
Repeated field | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||
Circulation | SBP | 7/7 | SBP | 3/7 | 5/7 | 7/7 |
Repeated field | 7 | 1 | 2 | |||