I S I T P OSSIBLE TO S AFELY T RIAGE C ALLERS TO EMS D ISPATCH C ENTERS TO A LTERNATIVE R ESOURCES ?

Abstract

The authors were able to use a demographic variable (age) to predict a population of callers to a 911 dispatch center triaged to the lowest acuity category, who have a very low risk of having an EMS or ED important finding. The decision rule developed here is preliminary, requiring further validation.