AN EVALUATION METHODOLOGY FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES (EMS) SYSTEMS BASED ON DATA ANALYSIS AND PROGRAM EVALUATION FOR EMS DATA: FINAL REPORT

THE OBJECT OF THIS PROGRAM WAS TO STUDY VARIOUS METHODS FOR DEVELOPING EMS DATA ON WHICH GOVERNMENTAL DECISION-MAKING MIGHT BE BASED. AFTER THE STUDY, ONE METHOD WAS CHOSEN AND DEVELOPED INTO A COMPLETE EMS ASSESSMENT MODEL. WORK STARTED WITH A BASELINE QUESTIONNAIRE DEVELOPED UNDER NATO. THIS WAS REFINED, EXPANDED, AND FIELD TESTED IN A NUMBER OF STATES WITH THE INTENTION THAT, UNDER NATO, IT MIGHT BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL STANDARD FOR EMS ASSESSMENT. APPROPRIATE EFFECTIVENESS MEASURES ARE DESCRIBED AND A WEIGHTING SYSTEM IN WHICH MATHEMATICAL TOTALS CAN BE DERIVED IS SUGGESTED.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract DOT-HS-134-2-460 DOT/HS 800 866
• Corporate Authors:

  Computer Sciences Corporation

  1616 North Fort Myer Drive
  Arlington, VA  United States  22209
• Publication Date: 1973-6

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 205 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Decision making; Disasters and emergency operations; Evaluation; Hazards and emergency operations; Medical services; Methodology; Questionnaires
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00224423
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 26 1974 12:00AM