European journal of emergency medicine : official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine
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Letter Randomized Controlled Trial
Which airways management technique is optimal for trauma patient ventilation?
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There is often little consensus on the levels of trainees' performances, given the varied expertise and experience of the assessors, different tasks to be assessed and dynamic circumstances. Consequently, assessors are considered to be a major source of measurement error in workplace assessment. The aim of this pilot study is to assess the inter-rater reliability and agreement of a hybrid framework for assessment of nonspecialist doctors in our Emergency Department. ⋯ The use of our hybrid framework improved the inter-rater reliability and agreement in our Emergency Department for a specific group of learners who have had previous Emergency Medicine experience. To improve the reliability of ratings, faculty development has to address how observations and assessments should be synthesized into an overall rating.
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There is only limited information on patient satisfaction with emergency medical services (EMS). The aim of this multicentre survey was to evaluate patient satisfaction in five out-of-hospital physician-based EMS in Austria and Switzerland. ⋯ Patient satisfaction in out-of-hospital physician-based EMS is generally high. There is room for improvement in areas such as the social skills of dispatchers and EMS-team members and the comfort of the patients during transport. A checklist should be developed for basic articles that patients should take along to hospital and for questions on responsibilities for children, dependent people or pets.