The Rhode Island Life Saving Score (RILSS)--a proposed life-saving definition for EMS and emergency medicine.
Rhode Island medical journal (2013) · 2013-12-03 · Method & validation
Abstract
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Emergency Medicine staff are often described as life-saving providers, but there is no generally accepted objective definition of a life saved by these providers. Therefore, a proposed definition is described. Development of this definition began with conceptual rules, followed by a survey of physician EMS medical directors, and then by the development of a tool to implement the definition, and measure its validity and reliability through a review of 100 critical care transport EMS patient charts.