finding the answers that are right under your feet

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Nick Nudell, MS, NRPChief Data OfficerThe Paramedic Foundation

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Finding the Answers that are Right Under your Feet

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Nick Nudell, MS, NRP• Critical Care Paramedic• Chief Data Officer• Bachelors IT Management• Master’s Information Security• Information Systems – Analytics & Decision Science

Doctoral Student• Systems, Evaluation, Information & Performance

Improvement Consultant• EMS Compass architect & project manager• http://emsnerd.com http://twitter/runmedic

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Navigating EMS systems challenges

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EMS systems are complexManaging without information is

crazy!

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Where do you start?

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How do you get there? Dig deeper!

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What about everyone else?

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Real time system management

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Dashboards

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Decision Aids

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How do you measure up?

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Performance Measures

Outcomes

Processes

Structures

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What is a performance measure?

Measurement Domain

Clinical Area

Topic

Family of MeasuresStructure

Process

Outcome

Balancing

Measure FormulaDenominator Numerator =Score

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Structure

Process

OutcomeStroke Bundle of Care

For positive stroke assessment, average

time from LKW to arrival at stroke

center

Documentation of LKW

Positive stroke Assessments

transported to Stroke Center

Blood Glucose for Positive Prehospital Stroke Assessment

Notification of stroke team

Suspected Stroke Receiving Prehospital

Stroke Assessment

Performance Measure Example: Stroke-7 Bundle of Care*

Stroke-1 Stroke-2 Stroke-3 Stroke-4

Stroke-7

Stroke-5

Stroke-6

*For illustration only. This does not represent a final measure and may change significantly before it becomes finalized.

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Stroke performance measurement

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Trauma performance measurement

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5/14

7/14

9/14

11/141/1

53/1

55/1

57/1

59/1

511/1

51/1

63/1

65/1

60

5

10

15

20

25

30

Number of Cardiac Arrests Per Month

Total IncidentsMedian

Month

Tota

l Inc

iden

ts

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Reduce variability

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Paramedic self-improvement

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Paramedic benchmarking

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Compliance monitoring

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Performance monitoring

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5/14

7/14

9/14

11/14

1/15

3/15

5/15

7/15

9/15

11/15

1/16

3/16

5/16

0

20

40

60

80

100

Compliance with Cardiac Arrest Bundle

Protocol Compliance % Median

Month

Prot

ocol

Com

plia

nce

Perc

enta

ge

0.000

0.010

0.020

0.030

0.040

0.050

0.060

0.070

0.080

0.000

ROSC at Any Time During Cardiac Arrest

Month

Perc

enta

ge -

ROSC

at A

ny T

ime

0.0000.0200.0400.0600.0800.1000.1200.140

Capnography Used After Airway Placed

MonthPerc

enta

ge -

Capn

ogra

phy

After

Ai

rway

0.0000.0500.1000.1500.2000.2500.3000.3500.400

LCL

0.152

0.076

0.1644

Percentage of Cardiac Arrests Where Mon-itor Data Was Uploaded

MonthPerc

enta

ge -

Mon

itor d

ata

up-

load

ed

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Daily management reports

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System management

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Delaying is costly!

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Delays cost!

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For more information please contact:

Nick Nudell

Chief Data Officer – The Paramedic Foundation

Project Manager – EMS Compass Initiative

[email protected]

(760) 405-6869EMSnerd.com EMSCompass.org

https://twitter.com/RunMedicImage Credits: ZOLL, MCHD, FirstWatch, Google, EMSCompass

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