Archives of Disease in Childhood 2009;94:414-416
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Measuring the performance of an inter-hospital transport service
Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS), 44-B Bedford Row, London WC1R 4LL, UK; RamnaP@gosh.nhs.uk
Accepted 15 November 2008
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Most district general hospital (DGH) paediatricians will have referred critically ill children to a retrieval team at some point in their career. Inter-hospital transport services have developed in response to the centralisation of specialist services such as intensive care, with the aim of ensuring safe and rapid transport of sick children to tertiary centres.1–3 In many parts of the UK, retrievals are undertaken by staff despatched from the receiving intensive care unit (ICU), although dedicated regional transport teams, similar to those in North America and Australia, have also evolved recently for neonatal and paediatric transfers.4–6 Regional transport teams allow concentration of expertise and often serve as a single point of contact for immediate advice, information on an appropriate ICU bed and access to a specialist team.
WHY MEASURE THE PERFORMANCE OF A TRANSPORT TEAM?
Clinicians, commissioners and patients justifiably expect specialist services to deliver high quality, cost-effective care. While a number of quality indicators have been proposed for
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