Studying the Predictive Ability of the MPDS Stroke Diagnostic Tool
Greg Scott, MBA, EMD-QI
Apr 04, 2025|AEDR 2025 Vol. 13 Issue 1|Case Study
In a recent study (see below poster), the Montgomery County Hospital District EMS service found that the Medical Priority Dispatch System’s Stroke Diagnostic Tool (SDxT) was able to identify true strokes—those confirmed by the receiving hospital—with a high degree of sensitivity and a comparable specificity to the face-to-face paramedic-initiated stroke activation (PISA).