Comparison of the Agreement and Accuracy Between Paramedic and Hospital Diagnosis. 2022

Majid Purabdollah, and Abdollah Khorrami Markani, and Fatemeh Moghaddam Tabrizi, and Mehdi Mokhtari
Khoy University of Medical Sciences, Khoy, Iran. Electronic address: porabdolahm@yahoo.com.

OBJECTIVE Making an accurate clinical diagnosis in the field of prehospital is of great challenge in medical services. This study aimed to determine agreement between prehospital and in-hospital diagnoses. METHODS The diagnostic agreement was determined by a comparison of the discharge diagnosis with the prehospital emergency technicians in a period of 6 months at the emergency medical services in northwest Azerbaijan. The diagnostic agreement of discharge diagnoses was compared with the fist diagnosis by the paramedics. The results were analyzed using the kappa agreement coefficient and the chi-square test. RESULTS The overall agreement between the diagnosis made by the emergency medical technicians and the hospital's first diagnosis was 67% (95% confidence interval [CI], 61%-77%; k = 0.61; 95% CI, 0.56-0.67), whereas the agreement between the first diagnosis made by the emergency medical technicians and the hospital discharge diagnosis was 58% (95% CI, 49%-65%; k = 0.42; 95% CI, 0.37-0.48).There was a high proportion of diagnostic agreement for pregnancy (100%), poisoning by drugs (88%), essential (primary) hypertension (86%), and ischemic heart diseases (72%). There was a low proportion of diagnostic agreement for weakness (39%), mixed anxiety and depressive disorder (43%), and cerebellar stroke syndrome (59%). CONCLUSIONS Our attention in practice and emergency medical courses should be directed to diseases that have a subjective history, such as weakness and anxiety, due to the high proportion of incorrect diagnoses by the prehospital emergency technician. It should be noted that most of the incorrectly diagnosed cases were overestimated with another coronary syndrome.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D004632 Emergency Medical Services Services specifically designed, staffed, and equipped for the emergency care of patients. Emergency Care,Emergency Health Services,Emergicenters,Prehospital Emergency Care,Emergency Care, Prehospital,Emergency Services, Medical,Medical Services, Emergency,Services, Emergency Medical,Emergency Health Service,Emergency Medical Service,Emergency Service, Medical,Emergicenter,Health Service, Emergency,Health Services, Emergency,Medical Emergency Service,Medical Emergency Services,Medical Service, Emergency,Service, Emergency Health,Service, Emergency Medical,Service, Medical Emergency,Services, Emergency Health,Services, Medical Emergency
D004634 Emergency Medical Technicians Allied health personnel trained to provide basic emergency care and life support under the supervision of physicians and/or nurses. These services may be carried out at the site of the emergency, in the ambulance, or in a health care institution. Advanced EMT,Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians,Emergency Medical Technician,Emergency Medicine Technicians,Medical Technician, Emergency,Medical Technicians, Emergency,Technician, Emergency Medical,Technicians, Emergency Medical,Advanced EMTs,EMT, Advanced,EMTs, Advanced,Emergency Medicine Technician,Technician, Emergency Medicine,Technicians, Emergency Medicine
D006761 Hospitals Institutions with an organized medical staff which provide medical care to patients. Hospital
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000488 Allied Health Personnel Health care workers specially trained and licensed to assist and support the work of health professionals. Often used synonymously with paramedical personnel, the term generally refers to all health care workers who perform tasks which must otherwise be performed by a physician or other health professional. Child Life Specialist,Allied Health Professional,Healthcare Assistants,Healthcare Support Workers,Population Program Specialists,Allied Health Professionals,Assistant, Healthcare,Assistants, Healthcare,Child Life Specialists,Health Personnel, Allied,Health Professional, Allied,Health Professionals, Allied,Healthcare Assistant,Healthcare Support Worker,Personnel, Allied Health,Population Program Specialist,Professional, Allied Health,Professionals, Allied Health,Program Specialist, Population,Program Specialists, Population,Specialist, Child Life,Specialist, Population Program,Specialists, Child Life,Specialists, Population Program,Support Worker, Healthcare,Support Workers, Healthcare,Worker, Healthcare Support,Workers, Healthcare Support

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