Performance measurement in British XXXX and Australian @entity910 .

@entity1 @entity341 @entity910
BACKGROUND: Performance outcome measures are an essential component of health service improvement. Whereas hospital critical care services have established performance measures, prehospital care services have less well-established outcome measures and this has been identified as a key issue for development. Individual studies examining long-term survival and functional outcome measures have previously been used to evaluate prehospital care delivery. There is no set of standardised @entity1 outcome measures for @entity341 ( @entity341 ) in the UK or @entity910 ( @entity910 ) in Australia. The aim of this study is to document the @entity1 outcome measures currently in use within British @entity341 and Australian @entity910 . METHODS: This is an observational study analysing point prevalence of practice as of November 2009. A structured questionnaire was designed to assess the method of routine @entity1 follow-up, and the timing and nature of applied @entity1 outcome measures. RESULTS: Full responses were received from 17/21 (81%) British services and 6/7 (86%) Australian services. The overall response rate was 82%. CONCLUSIONS: @entity341 in Britain and Australian aeromedical retrieval services do not have uniform @entity1 outcome measures. Services tend not to follow-up @entity1 beyond 24 h post transfer. @entity1 outcome data are rarely presented to an external organisation and there is no formal data comparison between surveyed services. Services are not satisfied that the data currently being collected reflects the quality of their service.
