The Rhode Island Life Saving Score (RILSS) --a proposed life-saving definition for EMS and emergency medicine
Williams, K.A.; Sullivan, F.M.
Rhode Island Medical Journal 96(12): 35-38
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 2327-2228 PMID: 24303516 Document Number: 265396
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.