title: The Rhode Island Life Saving Score (RILSS)--a proposed life-saving definition for EMS and emergency medicine.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
authors.forename: Kenneth A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Francis M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Sullivan
mesh_terms: D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000592:standards*; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D012237:Rhode Island; D009626:Terminology as Topic
keywords: emergency medical services; mortality