Hospital-Directed Feedback to Emergency Medical Services Improves Prehospital Performance

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE—A potential way to improve prehospital stroke care and patient handoff is hospital-directed feedback for emergency medical service (EMS) providers. We evaluated whether a hospital-directed EMS stroke follow-up tool improved documentation of adherence to the Rhode Island state...

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Published in:Stroke (1970) 2014-07, Vol.45 (7), p.2137-2140
Main Authors: Choi, Bryan, Tsai, Devin, McGillivray, Celia Gomes, Amedee, Caryn, Sarafin, Jo-Ann, Silver, Brian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Biological and medical sciences
Brain Ischemia - therapy
Emergency Medical Services - standards
Feedback, Psychological
Female
Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy
Hospitals - standards
Humans
Interprofessional Relations
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes)
Neurology
Quality of Health Care - standards
Retrospective Studies
Rhode Island
Stroke - therapy
Treatment Outcome
Vascular diseases and vascular malformations of the nervous system
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Summary:BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE—A potential way to improve prehospital stroke care and patient handoff is hospital-directed feedback for emergency medical service (EMS) providers. We evaluated whether a hospital-directed EMS stroke follow-up tool improved documentation of adherence to the Rhode Island state prehospital stroke protocol for EMS providers. METHODS—A standardized, 10-item feedback tool was developed in 2012 and sent to EMS directors for every transported patient with a discharge diagnosis of ischemic stroke. We reviewed patient charts meeting these criteria between January 2008 and December 2013. Performance on the tool was compared between the preintervention (January 2008 through January 2012) and postintervention (February 2012 through December 2013) periods. RESULTS—We identified 1176 patients with ischemic stroke who arrived by EMS in the study period668 in the preintervention period and 508 in the postintervention period. The overall score for the preintervention group was 5.31 and for the postintervention group 6.42 (P
ISSN:0039-2499
1524-4628
DOI:10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.005679