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Table 1 Ambulance electronic patient clinical record completion and patient characteristics

From: Factors influencing conveyance of older adults with minor head injury by paramedics to the emergency department: a multiple methods study

 

N

(n = 99a)

HI tool indicated conveyance

50

HI tool did not indicated conveyance

8

Incomplete or absent HI tool

41

Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) completed

78

  CFS ≥ 5

32

  CFS ≥ 7

7

Female

52

  1. a1 patient was excluded as a GCS of less than 15 was mentioned in the free text section of the electronic patient record. Patients aged 65 years and over with a minor head injury conveyed by ambulance in 2019