First author | Design | Methods | Monocenter/multicenter | Professionals | Patients | Guideline (year of publication) | Quality |
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(Year) | |||||||
Country | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Prehospital | |||||||
Caulfield | Retrospective, descriptive | Prehospital record review | Monocenter: 1 EMS | HEMS paramedics | 100 patients with traumatic brain injury | Brain Trauma Foundation Guideline for prehospital management of patients with traumatic brain injury (2007) | 9.5 |
(2009) | |||||||
USA | |||||||
Cooke | Retrospective, descriptive | Patient report forms | Multicenter: 19 EMSs | Paramedics | 69 patients with suspected meningococcal septicemia | Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee Clinical Guidelines for the administration of benzyl penicillin for suspected diagnosis of meningococcal septicemia (2003) | 7 |
(2005) | |||||||
UK | |||||||
Franschman 2009 The Netherlands | Retrospective, descriptive | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 EMS | Ambulance nurses EMS physicians | 127 patients with traumatic brain injury | Brain Trauma Foundation Guideline for prehospital management of patients with traumatic brain injury (2007) | 9 |
 | Dutch Ambulance Care National Protocol (2007) | ||||||
Hale | Retrospective, descriptive | Prehospital record review | Monocenter: 1 EMS | Not specified | 1022 patients who received O2 | Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee Clinical Guidelines for the administration of oxygen (2007) | 8.5 |
(2008) | |||||||
UK | |||||||
Jeremie | Prospective, descriptive | Prehospital record review | Multicenter: 3 EMSs | Anesthesiologists Emergency physicians | 143 patients who were sedated and intubated | SFAR Recommendations for sedation: analgesia in out-of-emergency medicine (2000) | 10 |
(2005) | |||||||
France | |||||||
Kirves | Retrospective, cohort | Prehospital record review | Multicenter: >75 EMSs | Paramedics EMS physicians | 157 patients with cardiac arrest | The Subdivision of Emergency Medicine of Finnish Society of Anaesthesiologists, Finnish Resuscitation Council and Red Cross of Finland. Resuscitation guidelines (2002) | 9 |
(2007) | |||||||
Finland | |||||||
Scliopou | Retrospective, descriptive | Database review | Multicenter: 35 EMSs | Paramedics | 70 patients with cardiac arrest | American Heart Association Advanced cardiac Life Support Guidelines (2000) | 10 |
(2005) | |||||||
USA | |||||||
Thomas | Prospective, descriptive | Data collection chart | Monocenter: 1 EMS | HEMS nurses HEMS paramedics | 37 patients with traumatic brain injury | Brain Trauma Foundation guidelines for the Management of Severe Head Injury (1995) | 10 |
(2002) | |||||||
USA | |||||||
Wik (2005) Norway/Sweden/UK | Prospective, case series | Data cards | Multicenter: 3 EMSs | Nurse anesthesists Paramedics | 176 patients with cardiac arrest | Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care: International Consensus on Science (2000) | 10 |
 | International guidelines for CPR and ECCL: a consensus on science (2000) | ||||||
Prehospital & Emergency Department | |||||||
Charpentier | Prospective, cohort | Case report form | Multicenter: 1 UH, 8 EMSs, 26 MICUs, 37 EDs, 22 CICUs | Emergency physicians | 1277 patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction | American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines for the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction (1999) | 10 |
(2009) | |||||||
France | |||||||
Emergency Department | |||||||
Atreja | Retrospective, descriptive | Chart review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Emergency physicians | 94 patients with an elevated international normalized ratio (INR) | American College of Chest Physicians recommendations for antithrombotic therapy for prevention and treatment of thrombosis (2001) | 10 |
(2005) | |||||||
USA | |||||||
Clark | Retrospective, cohort | Medical record review | Multicenter: 21 EDs | Not specified | 678 patients with allergic reaction to food | American academy of allergy, asthma, & immunology guideline for the management of food allergy (2003) | 10 |
(2004) | |||||||
USA & Canada | |||||||
Cydulka (2003) USA/Canada | Prospective, cohort | Medical record review Telephone interviews | Multicenter: 29 EDs | Not specified | 397 patients with exacerbation COPD | American thoracic society standards for the diagnosis and care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma (1987) | 10 |
 | British Thoracic Society guidelines for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary | ||||||
De Miguel-Yanes | Retrospective, cohort | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Not specified | 53 patients with suspected sepsis | Surviving sepsis campaign guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock (2004) | 9.5 |
(2006) | |||||||
Spain | |||||||
Doherty | Retrospective, pre-test post-test | Database review | Multicenter: 2 EDs | Not specified | 215 patients with asthma | NSW Department of Health guideline for the optimal treatment of chronic respiratory diseases (2003) | 10 |
(2007) | |||||||
Australia | |||||||
Elkharrat | Prospective, pre-test post test | Data collection chart | Monocenter: 1 ED | Not specified | 389 patients with open wounds | World Health Organisation guideline for antitetanus prophylaxis (1992) | 10 |
(1999) | |||||||
France | |||||||
Ferguson | Retrospective, cohort | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Pediatric emergency physicians | 167 children with fever | Agency for Health Care Policy and Research guideline for the management of infants and children 0 to 36Â months of age with fever without source (1993) | 9.5 |
(2012) | |||||||
USA | |||||||
Grant | Retrospective, descriptive | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Not specified | 473 patients with acute pain | British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine guideline for the management of pain in adults (2005) | 10 |
(2006) | |||||||
UK | |||||||
Jain (2002) USA | Retrospective, descriptive | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Pediatric residents | 229 children with fever | Agency for Health Care Policy and Research guideline for the management of infants and children 0 to 36Â months of age with fever without source (1993) | 9.5 |
 | Fellows | ||||||
 | Nurse practitioners | ||||||
Kelly | Prospective, descriptive | Data collection chart | Multicenter: 38 EDs | Not specified | 1340 patients with acute asthma | National Asthma Campaign asthma management guideline (1998) | 9.5 |
(2013) | |||||||
Australia | |||||||
Lee (2001) Taiwan | Retrospective, cohort | Medical record review | Multicenter: 6 EDs | Emergency physicians | 120 patients with acute asthma | 1. British Thotacic Society guidelines I & II for the management of asthma in adults (1990&1993) | 9 |
 | 2. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute guideline for the diagnosis and management of asthma (1991 & 1994 & 1997) | ||||||
 | 3. Asthma management guidelines and therapeutic Issues relating to the treatment of asthma. Chest (1999) | ||||||
Mansbach (2007) USA | Prospective, cohort | Medical record review | Multicenter: 17 EDs | Not specified | 624 children with bronchiolitis | American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases and Committee of Fetus and Newborn guidelines for prevention of respiratory syncytial virus infections: indications for the use of palivizumab and update on the use of RSV-IGIV (1998) | 9 |
 | Interviews | ||||||
Milks | Retrospective, descriptive | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Not specified | 181 patients with asthma | National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute guideline for the diagnosis and management of asthma (1991) | 8 |
(1999) | |||||||
USA | |||||||
Muayqil | Retrospective, descriptive | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Emergency physicians | 45 patients with convulsive status epilepticus | Epilepsy Foundation of America guidelines for the management convulsive status epilepticus (1993) | 10 |
(2007) | |||||||
Canada | |||||||
Musacchio | Retrospective, descriptive | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Not specified | 163 patients with urinary tract infections, urinary symptoms or sexually transmitted disease | Center for Disease Control and Prevention: guideline for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (2006) | 9 |
(2009) | |||||||
USA | |||||||
Pham (2007) USA | Cross sectional, descriptive | Database review | Multicenter: 544 EDs | Not specified | 1492 patients with acute myocardial infarction | Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Specification manual for national hospital quality measures for acute myocardial infarction and asthma (2007) | 10 |
 | 3955 patients with pneumonia | ||||||
Reid (2000) Canada | Retrospective, descriptive | Medical record review | Multicenter: 3 EDs | Emergency physicians | 130 patients with asthma | National guideline for the emergency management of asthma in adults (1996) | 10 |
 | Emergency nurses | ||||||
Roy (2006) France & Belgium | Prospective, cohort | Data collection chart | Multicenter: 117 EDs | Emergency physicians | 1529 patients with suspected pulmonary embolism | American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policies Committee. Clinical policy: critical issues in the evaluation and management of adult patients presenting with suspected pulmonary embolism (2003) | 9.5 |
 | British Thoracic Society guidelines for the management of suspected acute pulmonary embolism (2003) | ||||||
 | European Society of Cardiology Guidelines on diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism (2000) | ||||||
Salmeron (2001) France | Prospective, cohort | Data collection chart | Multicenter: 37 EDs | Emergency physicians | 4087 patients with acute asthma | 1. National Asthma Education and Prevention Program guidelines for the diagnosis and the management of asthma (1997) | 10 |
 | 2. British guidelines on asthma management, 1995 review and position statement (1997) | ||||||
Shaked | Retrospective, descriptive | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 E | Not specified | 56 children with febrile seizure | American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Practice Parameter: the neurodiagnostic evaluation of the child with a first simple febrile seizure (1996) | 10 |
(2009) | |||||||
USA | |||||||
Teismann | Retrospective, descriptive | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Emergency residents Physician assistants | 553 patients with suspected venous thromboembolism | American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policies Subcommittee on Suspected Pulmonary Embolism, evaluation and management of adult patients presenting with suspected pulmonary embolism (2003) | 9 |
(2009) | |||||||
USA | |||||||
Thakore | Retrospective, descriptive | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Not specified | 100 patients with syncope | American college of physicians guideline for management of patients with syncope (1997) | 9 |
(1999) | |||||||
Scotland | |||||||
Trzeciak | Retrospective, cohort | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Emergency physicians | 22 patients with confirmed or suspected sepsis | Surviving sepsis campaign guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock (2004) | 10 |
(2006) | |||||||
USA | |||||||
Tsai (2009) USA | Retrospective, cohort | Medical record review | Multicenter: 2 EDs | Emergency physicians | 272 patients with COPD | Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease guidelines for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2001) | 10 |
 | Interview | American College of Physicians guidelines for Management of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2001) | |||||
 | American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society joint guidelines Standards for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with COPD (2004) | ||||||
Wright | Retrospective, descriptive | Medical record review | Monocenter: 1 ED | Emergency physicians | 244 patients who received vancomycin | Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Recommendations for preventing the spread of vancomycin resistance: Recommendations of the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (1995) | 10 |
(1998) | |||||||
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