We reached consensus on measures for an operational hospital-based outcome criteria for critical illness and/or injury. This approach also enables future benchmarking of EMS performance and more precise identification of at-risk children in the prehospital setting. Subsequent steps include determining the prevalence of these criteria within varying hospital-based settings and the development of prediction models to identify prehospital factors associated with these outcomes.
Ramgopal et al. (Mon,) studied this question.