Quality of Care Indicators of a Pre-Hospital Mobile Emergency
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https://doi.org/10.3823/2173Keywords:
Quality Indicators; Health Care; Prehospital Care; Health Evaluation, Quality Indicators, Health Care, Prehospital Care, Health EvaluationAbstract
Objective: To identify the quality of care indicators in pre-hospital mobile emergency services.
Methods and results: This study is a systematic review conducted in December/2015 in eight databases using the keywords: quality indicators in health care; pre-hospital care; and quality, access, and evaluation of the health care. Seventeen studies were selected and the following indicators were identified: conservation of the ambulances; physical structure; comfort in the ambulance; material resources; safety for the patient/professional; continuing education; response time; professional remuneration; professional/patient satisfaction; access; host; humanization; performed service; safety demonstrated by the team; privacy to the patient; guidelines on care; relationship between the professional/patient; opportunity of the patient to complaint.
Conclusion: The establishment the of the quality of care indicators the in mobile emergency services will allow the construction of instruments to evaluate this type of service to search for excellence results in mobile emergency services.
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