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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Symptom-Based Dispatching in an Emergency Medical Communication Centre: Sensitivity, Specificity, and the Area under the ROC Curve.

Robert Larribau, Victor Nathan Chappuis, Philippe Cottet, Simon Regard, Hélène Deham, Florent Guiche, François Pierre Sarasin, Marc Niquille

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert LarribauDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, CH 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5200-4199
Victor Nathan ChappuisDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, CH 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.
Philippe CottetDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, CH 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.
Simon RegardDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, CH 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3979-7593
Hélène DehamDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, CH 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.
Florent GuicheDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, CH 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.
François Pierre SarasinDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, CH 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.
Marc NiquilleDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, CH 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.
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Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMeasuring the performance of emergency medical dispatch tools used in paramedic-staffed emergency medical communication centres (EMCCs) is rarely performed. The objectives of our study were, therefore, to measure the performance and accuracy of Geneva's dispatch system based on symptom assessment, in particular, the performance of ambulance dispatching with lights and sirens (L&S) and to measure the effect of adding specific protocols for each symptom.

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CommunicationEmergency Medical ServicesTriageEmergency Medical Service Communication SystemsHumansProspective StudiesRetrospective StudiesROC CurveSensitivity and SpecificitySwitzerlandcommunication centrecriteria-based dispatchemergency medical dispatchemergency medicineFagan nomogrammedical priority dispatchparamedicalsymptomtriage scale

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PMID33182228
PMCPMC7664854
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