Brief Educational Intervention Improves Emergency Medical Services Stroke Recognition
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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 prehospital stroke protocol for EMS providers. METHODS A standardized, 10-item feedback tool wa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.118.023885