Objectives: Emergency medical services (EMS) serves a critical role in the delivery of services to children with out-of-hospital emergencies. The EMS clinicians' initial field diagnoses, termed "impressions", facilitate focused patient assessments, guide the application of prehospital treatment protocols, and help determine transport destination. We sought to evaluate the concordance of the EMS clinician impression to a child's hospital-based diagnosis.
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