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3390116

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-8-9
pubmed:abstractText
The number of patients transported by hospital-based aeromedical transport programs is increasing rapidly across the country. How many of these patients really need this kind of transport and how to compare the performance of different services in this regard remain controversial issues. We examined these questions in a prospective analysis of 1,081 flights in 5 aeromedical transport programs using the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS) as the basis for an index of appropriateness. An average of 41.5% of flights in all programs were clearly appropriate according to the index, i.e., had scores associated with a 99% probability of validation by direct review. Another 34.9% of flights had a greater than 50% probability of being appropriate. From 18 to 28% of flights had scores associated with only a 20% probability of justification. Although TISS scoring, which is carried out after transfer, cannot provide a means of selecting individual patients for aeromedical transfer, a TISS-based index appears to be a simple and useful method for examining overall appropriateness of program activity, and could be used to set objective standards of appropriateness for evaluation and comparison of aeromedical programs.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0095-6562
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
59
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
563-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Evaluation of hospital-based aeromedical transport programs using therapeutic intervention scoring.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article