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Are You with the Patient Now? Distribution of EMD Calls by Caller-Party Type

Bryon Schultz, BA, Greg Scott, MBA, EMD-QI, Jeff J. Clawson, MD, Srilakshmi Sangaraju, MS, Christopher Olola, PhD

Oct 28, 2020|Research Posters

Caller-party type may determine the accuracy of the information collected by the EMD. Has this distribution changed in the past decade? Are EMD’s gathering more accurate information? And why is the caller party dynamic changing? The objective is to retrospectively look at the distribution of the caller-party type in a mostly urban/suburban, high performance EMS system. ProQA data from 2004 to 2017 was extracted and evaluated to identify any trends. This was a retrospective, descriptive, and uncontrolled study of de-identified medical dispatch data, collected using ProQA data from an...

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