Have the Datapoints been established for PreMIS?
Yes and No. PreMIS is being designed around all the current data standards which have implications to prehospital patient care. The initial dataset is being configured from a combination of the National Highway Traffic Safety (NHTSA) Prehospital Dataset, the Emergency Department Dataset from the Center for Disease Control, the Vehicle and Fatal Accident Reporting Systems from Highway Safety, the North Carolina Medical Examiner s Database, the NHTSA Crash Outcomes Data Project, the North Carolina Trauma Registry, and other injury surveillance and EMS specialty datasets. Once the draft dataset is established, it will be distributed to each EMS provider in North Carolina for input prior to it becoming final. The final dataset should be completed by the end of 1999.
