紧急事件类型在确定急救人员健康暴露风险方面的作用
Emily J Haas1, Katherine N Yoon1, Alexa Furek1
1National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Pittsburgh, PA 15236, United States.
概括
标准化消防部门事件编码对于应急响应至关重要. 细化类别可以提高数据的准确性和准备性,正如SARS-CoV-2暴露分析所示.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生和急救医学
- 数据科学和信息学数据科学和信息学
- 职业安全 在职业安全.
背景情况:
- 消防应急管理服务 (EMS) 每天都面临着各种职业风险.
- 准确的事件分类对于有效的准备和应对策略至关重要.
- 美国现有的事件类型编码系统需要对潜在的更新进行探索.
研究的目的:
- 分析事件编码对理解职业风险的影响,以SARS-CoV-2暴露为案例研究.
- 评估是否以及如何改进当前的事件呼叫类型编码类别,以实现更好的数据标准化.
- 通过精细的事件分类来加强应急响应决策.
主要方法:
- 来自三个消防部门计算机辅助调度 (CAD) 系统的紧急响应事件数据的分析 (2020年3月至9月).
- 162,766个事件被分为3种类型 (EMS,火灾,其他) 和重新分配的5种类型 (EMS,火灾,其他,危险物质,机动车辆).
- 逻辑回归模型用于比较3和5事件类型变量之间的潜在SARS-CoV-2暴露差异.
主要成果:
- 大约8.1%的事件涉及潜在的SARS-CoV-2暴露,主要编码为EMS (86.3%).
- 使用3类变量,火灾事件与EMS事件相比,潜在暴露率低84%.
- 使用5类变量,火灾事件与EMS事件相比潜在暴露率低77%,突出显示了编码的影响.
结论:
- 在3个和5个事件类型模型之间的潜在暴露发现的变化强调了对标准化事件分类的需求.
- 数据标准化对于准确分类事件类型至关重要,从而改善应急准备和应对.
- 这些发现对改进消防部门在市级和国家级的事件类型编码具有重大意义.
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