Why the study?
Does paramedic patient care record documentation of symptoms and symptom-onset time concord with hospital medical records in patients with myocardial infarction?
Population
400 patients with an emergency department discharge diagnosis of myocardial infarction who arrived by…
Comparison
Paramedic patient care record documentation of… vs Hospital medical record documentation
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Supports paramedic MI symptom documentation for research; leaves open validation for symptom-onset time and broader emergencies.
Does paramedic patient care record documentation of symptoms and symptom-onset time concord with hospital medical records in patients with myocardial infarction?
Documentation of common MI symptoms and symptom-onset time is highly concordant between paramedic and hospital records, supporting the use of paramedic records for prehospital MI research.
Coventry et al. (2014) studied this question.
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