Reliability of prehospital patient classification in helicopter emergency medical service missions

BMC Emergency Medicine

Table 3 ICPC-2 distribution of four patients as recorded by 42 physicians and paramedics in HEMS database

*Patient type*	N88 Epilepsy	P19 Drug abuse	N07 Convulsion/ Seizure	A96 Death	A84 Poisoning by medical agent	A81 Multiple trauma/ injuries	D80 Injury digestive system other	K80 Cardiac arrhythmia NOS	K99 Cardiovascular disease other	N79 Concussion	A80 Trauma/Injury NOS	A10 Bleeding/haemorrhage NOS	ICPC2 missing
Cardiac arrest	0	0	0	3^c	0	0	0	14	23	1	1^f	0	0
Major trauma	0	0	0	0	0	23^d	1	0	0	0	12	5^g	1
Paediatric seizures	5	0	37^b	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drug abuse, unconscious	0	25^a	0	0	16	0	0	0	0	1^e	0	0	0

Study CQR enables an additional ICPC-2 with the primary code:
^atwo participants additionally coded A84
^btwo participants additionally coded N88
^cone participant additionally coded K99
^done participant additionally coded N80 (head injury other) and one participant additionally coded A10
^eone participant additionally coded P19
^fone participant additionally coded A88 (adverse effect physical factor)
^gone participant additionally coded A80

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