EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SURVEY AND PLAN DEVELOPEMENT. EVALUATION AND REVISION OF PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE DOCUMENT. FINAL REPORT

THE PURPOSE WAS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNIFORM REPORTING FORMATS, PROCEDURES, AND CRITERIA FOR ESTIMATING THE CAPABILITIES OF EXISTING EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, INCLUDING CONSIDERATION OF SURVEY TECHNIQUES FOR EVALUATING THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION INVOLVED. THE PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE DOCUMENT WAS DESIGNED FOR USE BY STATES IN PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING A COMPREHENSIVE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PROGRAM IN ACCORDANCE WITH FEDERAL HIGHWAY SAFETY STANDARDS. THE DOCUMENT INCLUDES ORGANIZATIONAL AND PLANNING PROCEDURES REQUIRED AT THE STATE LEVEL, STEPS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT A STATE PROGRAM, ACTIONS REQUIRED AT THE LOCAL LEVEL TO FACILITATE PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION, AND DATA NEEDS FOR EMS EVALUATION AND DETERMINATION OF PROGRAM PRIORITIES. THE GUIDANCE IS SUPPORTED BY DETAILED PROCEDURES ON ORGANIZATION, DATA COLLECTION, DATA PROCESSING, AND REPORTING. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 2, 244 PP
• Corporate Authors:

  Stanford Research Institute

  333 Ravenswood Avenue
  Menlo Park, CA  United States  94025
• Publication Date: 1970-3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Disasters and emergency operations; Hazards and emergency operations; Information processing; Information systems; Medical services; Planning; Reports; Surveys
• Uncontrolled Terms: Reporting
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225844
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 28 1970 12:00AM