Enhancing Emergency Medical Dispatch to Drive Specific and Significant Improvements in Patient Care
Tracey Barron, BS, Paulius Dobozinskas, MD, Nedas Jasinskas, MD, Jeff J. Clawson, MD, Greg Scott, MBA, EMD-QI, Brett Patterson, Christopher Olola, PhD
Mar 15, 2016|AEDR 2016 Vol. 4 Issue 1|System Report
Measurement is a critical part of testing and implementing changes as well as identifying areas for further research, in prehospital care and dispatch. Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania, implemented the Medical Priority Dispatch System™ (MPDS®) to improve the efficiency, timely availability, consistency, and reliability of dispatch data and information. This in turn facilitated a research study into the care of cardiac arrest patients. Measurement is a critical part of testing and implementing changes, as well as identifying areas for further research...