Patient-Initiated Refusals of Prehospital Care: Ambulance Call Report Documentation, Patient Outcome, and On-line Medical Command
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
- Vol. 10 (1) , 3-9
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x0004156x
Abstract
Introduction: There is a growing interest in cases in which emergency medical services (EMS) providers evaluate a patient, but do not transport the patient to a hospital. A subset of these cases, the patient-initiated refusal (PIR) in which the patient refused care and transport, was studied and evaluated. The objectives of the study were to examine the adequacy of ambulance call report documentation in PIR, to examine the clinical outcome of these patients in one hospital-based, suburban EMS system, and to assess the potential impact of on-line medical command (OLMC) on cases of PIR.Keywords
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