From: A consensus-based template for documenting and reporting in physician-staffed pre-hospital services
Data point number | Data point name | Field format | Data point categories or values | Type* | Exact definition of data point | Reference/Comments |
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1 | Speciality of physician | Nominal (categorical data) | 1 = Anaesthesiology | Bullet list | Specialist/non-specialist is described in "Description of system" section. Mixed refers to both anaesthesiology and emergency medicine | Proposed by project group |
2 = Emergency medicine | ||||||
3 = Mixed | ||||||
4 = Other | ||||||
2 | Population | Continuous (numerical data) | Number | Annual number of citizens in area covered by service. | EED report (European Emergency Data Project) | |
3 | Geographical service area provision | squared km | Area in which the service is planned to operate, squared km | EED-report | ||
4 | MD unit hours per year | Continuous | hh:mm | Unit hour is defined as the annual sum of hours the unit is occupied on a mission. ∑ time (patient arrival at hospital) - alarm time/year | EED-report | |
5 | Mode of transportation accessible for the service | Nominal (categorical data) | 1 = Ground | Check box | Mode of transportation vehicle(s) available to service on a regular basis. | Abbreviated from Utstein Trauma Registry 2008 |
2 = Rotor-wing | ||||||
3 = Fixed-wing | ||||||
4 = Other | ||||||
6 | Operating hours | Ordinal | 1 = Full time service | Bullet list | Full time service is operational all days and nights | Proposed by project group |
2 = Day time service | Part time service is operational only day time and/or in hours of light | |||||
3 = Other | ||||||
7 | Activation criteria | Nominal (categorical data) | 1 = Criteria-based | Bullet list | Service is activated in accordance with a pre-defined set of activation criteria used by Emergency Medical Communication Centre | Proposed by expert panel |
2 = Consultation with physician | Service is activated only after consultation with an on-call physician | |||||
3 = Both | ||||||
8 | Number of events per year | Continuous (numerical data) | Number | Events includes dispatches and requests in which the physician in service is involved when on call | "Responses/missions" recoded to "events" by project group | |
9 | Dispatch system | Nominal | 1 = Integrated Emergency Medical Communication Centre (EMCC) | Bullet list | Integrated EMCC includes dispatch centres coordinating all levels of pre-hospital services | Proposed by expert panel |
2 = Special EMCC | Special EMCC includes centres only responsible for physician-staffed pre-hospital units | |||||
3 = Both |