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Are prehospital treatment or conveyance decisions affected by an ambulance crew’s ability to access a patient’s health information?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Emergency Medicine, October 2015
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Title
Are prehospital treatment or conveyance decisions affected by an ambulance crew’s ability to access a patient’s health information?
Published in
BMC Emergency Medicine, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12873-015-0054-1
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Authors

Ollie Zorab, Maria Robinson, Ruth Endacott

Abstract

A shift from a predominantly emergency service, towards one where a wide range of conditions are managed and treated on scene presents numerous challenges for ambulance services and clinicians. The effective management of a broad range of patients and conditions in the ambulance setting will have an impact on other parts of the health service including emergency departments and primary care. A two part online survey was distributed to operational staff working for a regional UK ambulance service. Clinicians were asked to report their experiences of accessing patient information and making decisions about patient management based on four hypothetical patient scenarios. A survey of clinical staff (n = 302) revealed that (i) the vast majority experienced difficulties in accessing patients' health information, (ii) this was particularly true in the out of hours period and (iii) They felt that better access would likely lead to more appropriate selection of care pathways. Decisions regarding the most appropriate care for patients presenting to the ambulance service are best informed by access to accurate and complete health information and records. An understanding of patients' pre-existing medical conditions, recent treatments and health information is needed for the selection of the most appropriate care; this information is often difficult to obtain in the ambulance service setting.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 83 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 18 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 11%
Researcher 7 8%
Student > Master 7 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Other 19 23%
Unknown 19 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 30 36%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Engineering 2 2%
Social Sciences 2 2%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 22 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 October 2015.
All research outputs
#7,755,424
of 25,556,408 outputs
Outputs from BMC Emergency Medicine
#379
of 881 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#87,305
of 290,139 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Emergency Medicine
#5
of 11 outputs
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