Tavakoli Nahid, Yarmohammadian Mohammad H, Safdari Reza, Keyvanara Mahmoud
Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Health Information Management, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
World J Emerg Med. 2017;8(2):91-98. doi: 10.5847/wjem.j.1920-8642.2017.02.002.
After a disaster, all victims have to be rapidly and accurately identified for locating, tracking and regulating them. The purpose of this study was to summarize people's experiences that how the patients were tracked in past earthquake disasters in Iran.
A qualitative study was carried out in 2015. This was an interview-based qualitative study using content analysis. The interviewed people included physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians, disaster managers, Red Crescent Society' first responders and managers. Participants were identified using a snow ball sampling method. Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, coded, and entered into MAXQDA (version 10) for coding and content analysis.
Three main themes and seven categories including content (recoding data), function (identification of victims, identification of the deceased, informing the patients' relatives, patients' evacuation and transfer, and statistical reporting), technology (the state of using technology) were identified that showed the patient tracking status in past earthquakes in Iran.
Participants believed that to identify and register the data related to patients or the dead, no consistent action plan was available. So developing a consistent patient tracking system could overcome this issue and improve patient safety.
灾难发生后,必须迅速、准确地识别所有受害者,以便对他们进行定位、追踪和管理。本研究的目的是总结人们在伊朗过去地震灾难中追踪患者的经验。
2015年开展了一项定性研究。这是一项基于访谈的定性研究,采用内容分析法。访谈对象包括医生、护士、急救医疗技术人员、灾难管理人员、红新月会的第一响应者和管理人员。采用滚雪球抽样法确定参与者。访谈进行录音、转录、编码,并输入MAXQDA(版本10)进行编码和内容分析。
确定了三个主要主题和七个类别,包括内容(记录数据)、功能(受害者识别、死者识别、通知患者亲属、患者疏散和转移以及统计报告)、技术(技术使用状况),这些展示了伊朗过去地震中的患者追踪情况。
参与者认为,在识别和登记与患者或死者相关的数据方面,没有一致的行动计划。因此,开发一个一致的患者追踪系统可以克服这个问题并提高患者安全。