A DATA COLLECTION PROGRAM FOR MONITORING AND MODIFYING AN EMS SYSTEM

The authors are members of a regional trauma unit dedicated to the care of vehicular collision victims. They have studied the problems associated with modifying and improving the care administered to patients. Quantification of the trauma patient care and the resources required to provide such care has not been available to organizers of EMS systems. The EMS system at Sunnybrook Medical Centre in Toronto has therefore over the past seven years, developed an on-line data collection program which facilitates monitoring of these parameters. The on-line program infers that the staff involved with collision victims are responsible for data tabulation. Both the results of and the time required to provide a service are documented. This prospective data collection program is both accurate and cost-effective. Data concerning individual patient care has been collated from appropriate sources to construct an accurate trauma patient profile. The analysis of this information has ensured a sound feedback system to those involved with clinical evaluation or financial planning of the EMS system. This paper describes the means of implementation and the functional aspects of a data collection program. Although the data base from the regional trauma unit should be of interest to organizers of the trauma centres, the authors believe that the techniques employed to create the data base are translatable and can be used beneficially by any organization attempting to improve the lot of the motor vehicle collision victims. (Author/TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 3-6, 1983.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Association for Automotive Medicine

  P.O. Box 222
  Morton Grove, IL  United States  60053
• Authors:
  • Nelson, W R
  • McMurtry, R Y
  • Pickard, J J
  • Flafferty, D
• Conference:
  • 27TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE
  • Location: San Antonio Texas, United States
  • Date: 1983-10-3 to 1983-10-6
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 311-322
• Monograph Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, USA, OCTOBER 3-6, 1983. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Conferences; Cost effectiveness; Costs; Crashes; Data banks; Data collection; Disasters and emergency operations; Hazards and emergency operations; Injuries; Monitoring
• Uncontrolled Terms: Modifications
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 8018: Canada; 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 8623: Data acquisition; 8614: Database; 2163: Injury
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00389448
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 30 1984 12:00AM