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A consensus based template for reporting of pre-hospital major incident medical management

BACKGROUND: Structured reporting of major incidents has been advocated to improve the care provided at future incidents. A systematic review identified ten existing templates for reporting major incident medical management, but these templates are not in widespread use. We aimed to address this chal...

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Autores principales: Fattah, Sabina, Rehn, Marius, Lockey, David, Thompson, Julian, Lossius, Hans Morten, Wisborg, Torben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24517242
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-22-5
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author Fattah, Sabina
Rehn, Marius
Lockey, David
Thompson, Julian
Lossius, Hans Morten
Wisborg, Torben
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Rehn, Marius
Lockey, David
Thompson, Julian
Lossius, Hans Morten
Wisborg, Torben
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description BACKGROUND: Structured reporting of major incidents has been advocated to improve the care provided at future incidents. A systematic review identified ten existing templates for reporting major incident medical management, but these templates are not in widespread use. We aimed to address this challenge by designing an open access template for uniform reporting of data from pre-hospital major incident medical management that will be tested for feasibility. METHODS: An expert group of thirteen European major incident practitioners, planners or academics participated in a four stage modified nominal group technique consensus process to design a novel reporting template. Initially, each expert proposed 30 variables. Secondly, these proposals were combined and each expert prioritized 45 variables from the total of 270. Thirdly, the expert group met in Norway to develop the template. Lastly, revisions to the final template were agreed via e-mail. RESULTS: The consensus process resulted in a template consisting of 48 variables divided into six categories; pre-incident data, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) background, incident characteristics, EMS response, patient characteristics and key lessons. CONCLUSIONS: The expert group reached consensus on a set of key variables to report the medical management of pre-hospital major incidents and developed a novel reporting template. The template will be freely available for downloading and reporting on http://www.majorincidentreporting.org. This is the first global open access database for pre-hospital major incident reporting. The use of a uniform dataset will allow comparative analysis and has potential to identify areas of improvement for future responses.
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spelling pubmed-39222482014-02-13 A consensus based template for reporting of pre-hospital major incident medical management Fattah, Sabina Rehn, Marius Lockey, David Thompson, Julian Lossius, Hans Morten Wisborg, Torben Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med Original Research BACKGROUND: Structured reporting of major incidents has been advocated to improve the care provided at future incidents. A systematic review identified ten existing templates for reporting major incident medical management, but these templates are not in widespread use. We aimed to address this challenge by designing an open access template for uniform reporting of data from pre-hospital major incident medical management that will be tested for feasibility. METHODS: An expert group of thirteen European major incident practitioners, planners or academics participated in a four stage modified nominal group technique consensus process to design a novel reporting template. Initially, each expert proposed 30 variables. Secondly, these proposals were combined and each expert prioritized 45 variables from the total of 270. Thirdly, the expert group met in Norway to develop the template. Lastly, revisions to the final template were agreed via e-mail. RESULTS: The consensus process resulted in a template consisting of 48 variables divided into six categories; pre-incident data, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) background, incident characteristics, EMS response, patient characteristics and key lessons. CONCLUSIONS: The expert group reached consensus on a set of key variables to report the medical management of pre-hospital major incidents and developed a novel reporting template. The template will be freely available for downloading and reporting on http://www.majorincidentreporting.org. This is the first global open access database for pre-hospital major incident reporting. The use of a uniform dataset will allow comparative analysis and has potential to identify areas of improvement for future responses. BioMed Central 2014-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3922248/ /pubmed/24517242 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-22-5 Text en Copyright © 2014 Fattah et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24517242
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-22-5
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