Accuracy of nature of call screening tool in identifying patients requiring treatment for out of hospital cardiac arrest.
Jonathan David GreenSean EwingsRichard WorthamBronagh WalshPublished in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2019)
NoC and NHSP call categorisation each achieved similar sensitivity for the identification of OHCATR, identifying most of the same patients, but each captured unique patients. Using both methods sequentially improved accuracy. The 16% of OHCATR patients not identified by either method present a challenge to ambulance dispatch systems.