Napisporn Memongkol and Runchana Sinthavalai and Nattapong Seneeratanaprayune Weerawat Ounsaneha and Chanisada Choosuk
Development of Performance Indicators in Operational Level for Prehospital EMS in Thailand
1889 - 1894
2009
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International Journal of Health and Medical Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/5757
https://publications.waset.org/vol/34
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
The objective of this research is to develop the
performance indicators (PIs) in operational level for the Prehospital Emergency Medical Service (EMS) system employing in Thailand. This research started with ascertaining the current prehospital care
system. The team analyzed the strategies of Narerthorn, a government unit under the ministry of public health, and the existing PIs of the prehospital care. Afterwards, the current National Strategic Plan of EMS development (20082012) of the Emergency
Medical Institute of Thailand (EMIT) was considered using strategic
analysis to developed Strategy Map (SM) and identified the Success
Factors (SFs). The analysis results from strategy map and SFs were used to develop the Performance Indicators (PIs). To verify the set of
PIs, the team has interviewed with the relevant practitioners for the possibilities to implement the PIs. To this paper, it was to ascertain
that all the developed PIs support the objectives of the strategic plan. Nevertheless, the results showed that the operational level PIs suited
only with the first dimension of National Strategic Plan
(infrastructure and information technology development). Besides,
the SF was the infrastructure development (to contribute the EMS system to people throughout with standard and efficiency both in normally and disaster conditions). Finally, twentynine indicators
were developed from the analysis results of SM and SFs.
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