Transportation Management in Pre-hospital Emergency whit Physiological Early Warning Scores

• Main Authors: AA Ebrahimian, N Khalesi, Gh Mohamadi, M Tordeh, M Naghipour
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2012-10-01
• Series: مدیریت سلامت
• Subjects: Internal Patient; Physiological Early Warning Scores; Pre-hospital Emergency; Transport management
• Online Access: http://jha.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1015-en.html

Introduction: Pre-hospital emergency services in Iran need to move towards evidence-based services. The aim of this study was to evaluation the physiological early warning scoring system (PEWS) for transport management of internal patients. Methods: This is a cross sectional study. The study populations are internal patients that transport by pre-hospital emergency of Semnan province. Physiological early warning scoring system is used as the data collection device. Data were analyzed by the use of descriptive and Pearson correlation coefficient and by SPSS19 software. Results: The mean of the physiological scoring was 2.38±2.42. About 28.9% of those transports to hospital did not need to emergency treatment, and there is statistically significant relationship between physiological early warning scoring and need to pre-hospital emergency attains of patients. Discussion: The Use of the physiological early warning scoring system suitable means for pre-hospital transport management for internal patients. But in identifying patients, who have no immediate need for emergency services, is faced with the challenge. Therefore, definitive statement about the use of this tool requires more studies in this area.