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BMC Med Res Methodol
January 2025
Prehospital Center Region Zealand, Ringstedgade 61, 14th Floor, Naestved, 4700, Denmark.
Background: Effective interventions to reduce drowning incidents require accurate and reliable data for scientific analysis. However, the lack of high-quality evidence and the variability in drowning terminology, definitions, and outcomes present significant challenges in assessing studies to inform drowning guidelines. Many drowning reports use inappropriate classifications for drowning incidents, which significantly contributes to the underreporting of drowning.
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January 2025
Uppsala Center for Prehospital Research, Institute of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Background: Clinical feedback is often lacking in prehospital care, and while performance data is increasingly available to clinical and operational leadership, it is seldom made available to care providers themselves. In this study, we investigate the impact of a simple intervention consisting of the provision of monthly feedback reports via email to emergency medical dispatch nurses in three Swedish regions.
Method: Individualised reports consisting of 14 measures divided into descriptive (eg, priority-setting and call times), process (eg, dispatch times and documentation completeness) and outcome (eg, over/under triage rate) categories were developed with staff and management input.
Ann Med
December 2025
Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Background: The reverse shock index multiplied by simplified motor score (rSI-sMS) is a novel and rapid measure for assessing injury severity in patients with trauma in prehospital settings; however, its discriminant ability requires further validation.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted from trauma database of Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital to compare the accuracy of the rSI-sMS with that of the shock index, modified shock index, reverse shock index multiplied by the Glasgow Coma Scale (rSI-GCS), and the reverse shock index multiplied by GCS motor subscale (rSI-GCSM) for discriminating in-hospital mortality, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, prolonged ICU stays ≥14 days, and prolonged hospital stays ≥30 days in patients with trauma.
Results: A total of 11,760 patients from the trauma database were included.
BMC Public Health
January 2025
Department of Research and Development, Central Denmark Region, The Prehospital Emergency Medical Services, Brendstrupgaardsvej 7, Aarhus N, 8200, Denmark.
Background: While most Danish citizens never or very rarely call the national emergency helpline, 1-1-2, a few citizens call very often. In this article, we attend to the often-unheard voices of frequent callers, exploring why these citizens call 1-1-2 and why they often do not feel helped.
Methods: The article is based on a mixed-methods study on citizens in the Central Denmark Region who had called 1-1-2 five or more times during a period of six months in 2023.
Lakartidningen
January 2025
med dr, leg läkare, Registercentrum Syd Region Blekinge.
The Swedish quality register AmbuReg collects all the country's ambulance missions. There is an increasing demand on the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) due to decreasing hospital resources and referral to self-care, primary care and mobile teams. This, in combination with fast tracks for patients with myocardial infarction, stroke, hip fracture or sepsis, increases the requirement for optimal triage at the scene.
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