WHAT'S NEW IN EMERGENCY PRE-HOSPITAL CARE RESEARCH? 2008 CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY 999 EMS RESEARCH FORUM IN COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD AND THE NATIONAL AMBULANCE RESEARCH STEERING GROUP
PostersThe quality and safety of emergency care practitioner care
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Introduction
An emergency care practitioner (ECP) is a relatively new type of health care provider deployed in different health care settings. Little is known about the safety and quality of care provided by ECPs so as part of a multi-centre workforce evaluation of ECPs, we compared the care provided by ECPs in five "intervention" sites with the care provided by the usual providers (eg nurse practitioners, GPs, community paramedics) in five "control" sites where ECPs were not operational.
Methods
We used established methods of Record Review. After training, seven specialist registrars in emergency medicine were asked to rate the quality of care in a stratified random sample of 480 sets of patient case notes (ie 40 from each of the 12 services covered by the five ECP sites and five non-ECP "control" sites) on a scale of 1–6 (where 1 = unsatisfactory, 6 = very best care). The scores were aggregated
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