Challenges to Use Response Time Standard in Assessing Emergency Medical Services in Iran: A Systematic Review
| Autor: | Masoud Roudbari, Seyyed Mohammad Reza Hosseini, Hasan Abolghasem Gorji, Mohammadreza Maleki, Davoud Khorasani-Zavareh |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Scopus
lcsh:Surgery Context (language use) Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 0502 economics and business Emergency medical services medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine National standard response time iran Persian 050210 logistics & transportation Data collection business.industry 05 social sciences 030208 emergency & critical care medicine emergency medical services lcsh:RD1-811 medicine.disease language.human_language Persian studies performance evaluation language Medical emergency prehospital emergencies business |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Trauma Research, Vol 6, Iss 4, Pp 55-62 (2017) |
| Popis: | Response time (RT) accounts as a common tool for emergency medical services (EMS) assessment. While the national standard RT has been established in Iran since 2007, its application has hardly been put into scrutiny. This study aimed at investigating the use of RT standard in assessing EMS in Iran. This systematic review included papers focusing on prehospital EMS assessment published in Google Scholar, Scopus, Embase, PubMed, and the Persian databases of Magiran and SID. Selection criteria involved all English and Persian studies focusing on RT as an assessment of prehospital EMS in the context of Iran. Repetitious papers and those presented in conferences were omitted, which left 21 papers published from 2007 to mid-2016 for systematic review. A data collection form was designed. This provided both inclusive information about the papers and indicators used to report RT in each paper (i.e., mean and percentages of RT below 8 min) as well as the use of these indicators vis-a-vis that of the standard. From among the 21 papers focusing on RT, seven (33%) reported RT as percentages of operations performed in |
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