117 Can NEDOCS Score Be Used to Predict Ambulance Offload Delay?

Cooney, Derek R; Wojcik, Susan; Seth, Naveen

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.06.144

Cited by 3 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…There is no literature regarding which predictor variables or techniques should be used, nor is there information about whether a single site-derived model would apply to multiple emergency departments for systemwide implementation. Cooney et al 5,6 considered whether the National Emergency Department Overcrowding Score (NEDOCS) 7,8 may be a useful predictor variable or model, with the association describing the relationship between access block and ambulance ramping. Others have explored centralized ambulance patient distribution optimization.…”

Section: Importancementioning

confidence: 99%

Predicting Ambulance Patient Wait Times: A Multicenter Derivation and Validation Study

Walker

Jiarpakdee

Loupis

et al. 2021

Annals of Emergency Medicine

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Importancementioning

confidence: 99%

Predicting Ambulance Patient Wait Times: A Multicenter Derivation and Validation Study

Walker

Jiarpakdee

Loupis

et al. 2021

Annals of Emergency Medicine

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A review on ambulance offload delay literature

Vanberkel

Carter

2018

Health Care Manag Sci

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Ambulance offload delay (AOD) occurs when care of incoming ambulance patients cannot be transferred immediately from paramedics to staff in a hospital emergency department (ED). This is typically due to emergency department congestion. This problem has become a significant concern for many health care providers and has attracted the attention of many researchers and practitioners. This article reviews literature which addresses the ambulance offload delay problem. The review is organized by the following topics: improved understanding and assessment of the problem, analysis of the root causes and impacts of the problem, and development and evaluation of interventions. The review found that many researchers have investigated areas of emergency department crowding and ambulance diversion; however, research focused solely on the ambulance offload delay problem is limited. Of the 137 articles reviewed, 28 articles were identified which studied the causes of ambulance offload delay, 14 articles studied its effects, and 89 articles studied proposed solutions (of which, 58 articles studied ambulance diversion and 31 articles studied other interventions). A common theme found throughout the reviewed articles was that this problem includes clinical, operational, and administrative perspectives, and therefore must be addressed in a system-wide manner to be mitigated. The most common intervention type was ambulance diversion. Yet, it yields controversial results. A number of recommendations are made with respect to future research in this area. These include conducting system-wide mitigation intervention, addressing root causes of ED crowding and access block, and providing more operations research models to evaluate AOD mitigation interventions prior implementations. In addition, measurements of AOD should be improved to assess the size and magnitude of this problem more accurately.

show abstract

Patient safety in ambulance services: a scoping review

Fisher

Freeman

Clarke

et al. 2015

Health Services and Delivery Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Objective. To examine the literature pertaining to the use of peer-led education in patient safety. Findings. Four studies met the inclusion criteria: two were conducted in health care students and two in medical practitioners. Three studies used pre-post evaluation, with one containing a comparator group. One study a post-intervention evaluation only. All studies undertook Kirkpatrick Level 2 evaluations, showing significant improvements in attitudes and knowledge. One study undertook Level 3 and 4 evaluations, showing improvement in self-reported behaviors and engagement in quality improvement initiatives. Summary. There are few studies evaluating peer-led education in patient safety and formal and high-quality evaluations are lacking.

show abstract

117 Can NEDOCS Score Be Used to Predict Ambulance Offload Delay?

Cited by 3 publications

References 0 publications

Predicting Ambulance Patient Wait Times: A Multicenter Derivation and Validation Study

Predicting Ambulance Patient Wait Times: A Multicenter Derivation and Validation Study

A review on ambulance offload delay literature

Patient safety in ambulance services: a scoping review

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About