Data variable number | Main data variable name | Type of data | Data variable categories or values | Data variable sub-categories or values | Type | Definition of data variable | How often should variable be reported |
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1. Fixed system variables | |||||||
1.1. | Specialty of physicians | Categorical | 1.1.1 Anaesthesiology | Check box | Specialty of physicians working in the service on a regular basis | Annual | |
1.1.2 Emergency medicine | |||||||
1.1.3 Intensive care | |||||||
1.1.4 Surgery | |||||||
1.1.5 Internal medicine | |||||||
1.1.6 Other | |||||||
1.2. | Training level of physicians | Categorical | 1.2.1 Trainee/registrar | Check box | Annual | ||
1.2.2 Specialist | |||||||
1.3. | Composition of team | Categorical | 1.3.1 Nurse | Check box | Qualification of non-p-EMS personnel accompanying the physician during mission | Annual | |
1.3.2. Paramedic | As defined by each national service | ||||||
1.3.3. EMS-technician | As defined by each national service | ||||||
1.3.4. Other | |||||||
1.4. | Catchment population | Continuous | Number | Number of citizens in the area covered by the service on a regular basis | Annual | ||
1.5. | Catchment area | Continuous | 1.5.1. Square km | Number | Area in which the service is planned to operate on a regular basis, square km | Annual | |
Categorical | 1.5.2. Type | 1.5.2.1. Urban | Check box | Type of area where service operate on a regular basis (as defined by each service) | |||
1.5.2.2. Rural | |||||||
1.6. | Does the service conduct primary missions? | Categorical | 1.6.1. Yes | Bullet list | On-scene missions | Annual | |
1.6.2. No | |||||||
1.7. | Does the service conduct inter-hospital transfer missions? | Categorical | 1.7.1. Yes | Bullet list | Patient transfers between different hospitals or facilities | Annual | |
1.7.2. No | |||||||
1.8. | Number of consultations only (advice) per year | Continuous | Number | Physician is consulted by EMS or other professionals (give advice) | Annual | ||
1.9. | Number of primary missions per year | Continuous | Number | Missions where physician is on-scene. Total number for the service | Annual | ||
1.10. | Number of inter-hospital transfer missions per year | Continuous | Number | Inter-hospital or interfacility transfer. Total number for the service | Annual | ||
1.11. | Number of cancelled missions per year | Continuous | Number | Any mission where p-EMS is alarmed but not able to respond or must interrupt mission | Annual | ||
1.12. | Number of events per year per physician | Continuous | Number | The average number of missions per individual physician per year | Annual | ||
1.13. | Number of events for p-EMS unit/100,000 inhabitants per year | Continuous | Number | Annual | |||
1.14. | Number of EMS events/100,000 inhabitants per year | Continuous | Number | Number of events for the whole EMS system, including p-EMS | Annual | ||
1.15. | Number of p-EMS units/ 100,000 inhabitants | Continuous | Number | Annual | |||
1.16. | Number of p-EMS units/km2 | Continuous | Number | Area in which the service operates on a regular basis | Annual | ||
1.17. | Available vehicles in service | Categorical | Check box | Available vehicles on a regular basis for p-EMS | Annual | ||
1.17.1. Rapid response car | Regular car, no stretcher | ||||||
1.17.2. Regular ambulance staffed with physician | Car with stretcher. Physician is attending on a regular basis | ||||||
1.17.3. Rotor Wing | |||||||
1.17.4. Fixed Wing | |||||||
1.17.5. Boat staffed with physician | Physician is attending on a regular basis | ||||||
1.17.6. Other | |||||||
1.18. | Operating hours | Categorical | 1.18.1. Daytime | Bullet list | Regular working hours, e.g., 08–16, as defined by each service | Annual | |
1.18.2. Daylight only | Service operates only in daylight (different opening hours during the year due to seasonal variations). Daylight as defined by each service | ||||||
1.18.3. 24/7 (full-time service) | Service operates during the day and night | ||||||
1.18.4. Other | |||||||
1.19. | Activation criteria | Categorical | 1.19.1. Criteria based | Check box | P-EMS activated in accordance with a pre-defined set of activation criteria used by EMCC | Annual | |
1.19.2. Consultation with physician | Physician-staffed unit activated only after consultation with an on-call physician | ||||||
1.19.3. Individual | No predefined criteria for activation of p-EMS | ||||||
1.20. | Dispatch system | Categorical | 1.20.1. Integrated EMCC | Check box | Integrated EMCC includes dispatch centres coordinating all levels of pre-hospital services | Annual | |
1.20.2. Special EMCC | Special EMCC includes centres only responsible for p-EMS units | ||||||
1.20.3. Other | |||||||
1.21. | Advanced equipment carried by service | Categorical | 1.21.1. Blood products | Check box | Advanced equipment available on a regular basis to service | Annual | |
1.21.2. Mechanical chest compression device | |||||||
1.21.3. Ultrasound | |||||||
1.21.4. Advanced drugs | Drugs not available to regular EMS in the individual system | ||||||
1.21.5. Additional airway management equipment (e.g., videoscope) | Airway management equipment beyond the scope of regular EMS | ||||||
1.21.6. Surgical procedures supported | Service carries equipment for predefined surgical procedures | ||||||
1.22. | Does a system for registration and reviewing of adverse events, critical incidents and educational events in the service exist? | Categorical | 1.22.1. Yes | Bullet list | Annual | ||
1.22.2 No | |||||||
1.23. | Categorization of events/case mix | Categorical | 1.23.1. Cardiac arrest medical aetiology | Check box | Mission types the service responds to | Annual | |
1.23.2. Cardiac arrest traumatic aetiology | |||||||
1.23.3. Trauma | |||||||
1.23.4. Breathing difficulties | |||||||
1.23.5. Myocardial infarction (MI) | Confirmed by ECG | ||||||
1.23.6. Chest pain, MI not confirmed | |||||||
1.23.7. Stroke | |||||||
1.23.8. Acute neurology excluding stroke | |||||||
1.23.9. Reduced level of consciousness | |||||||
1.23.10. Poisoning/Intoxication | |||||||
1.23.11. Burns | |||||||
1.23.12. Obstetrics and childbirth | |||||||
1.23.13. Infection | |||||||
1.23.14. Anaphylaxis | |||||||
1.23.15. Surgical | |||||||
1.23.16. Asphyxiation | |||||||
1.23.17. Drowning | |||||||
1.23.18. Psychiatry excluding poisoning/intoxication | |||||||
1.23.19. All of the above | Service responds to all types of events | ||||||
1.23.20. Other | |||||||
1.24. | Number of intubations successful on first attempt and without desaturation (DASH1a intubations) /100 intubations | Continuous | Number | Annual | |||
1.25. | Number of patients where blood glucose was measured after ROSC/100 ROSC | Continuous | Number | Annual |