Determining a Consensus-Based Measure for Critical Illness and Injury for Children Cared for By Emergency Medical Services

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.