I'm trying to estimate the proportion of LVF admissions that are
transported by ambulance (rather than taken by taxi / own car).
(Current prehospital databases are only able to tell me numbers of
patients given a particular intervention (and then only if recorded on
patient report form). MPDS codes are too imprecise for this -
difficulty breathing with cardiac history, or heart problems, or chest
pain with severe respiratory distress etc)
Any thoughts?
Many thanks for any comments at all!
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Kath Charters
Research Officer, Evidence Based Guidelines Project
Welsh Ambulance Service
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