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EMS UNIT ARRIVAL ON SCENE DATE
08-Jan-2009
Pre-Hospital Information
Definition
The date the unit transporting to your hospital arrived on the scene/transferring
facility (the time the vehicle stopped moving).
- For inter facility transfer patients, this is the date on which the unit transporting the patient to your facility from the transferring facility arrived at the transferring facility (arrival is defined at date/time when the vehicle stopped moving).
- For patients transported from the scene of injury to your hospital, this is the date on which the unit transporting the patient to your facility from the scene arrived at the scene (arrival is defined at date/time when the vehicle stopped moving).
Additional Information
- Collected as YYYY-MM-DD
- Used to auto-generate two additional calculated fields: Total EMS Response Time (elapsed time from EMS dispatch to scene arrival) & Total EMS Scene Time (elapsed time from EMS scene arrival to scene departure).
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