TY - JOUR T1 - Quality indicators development and prioritisation for emergency medical call centres: a stakeholder consensus JF - BMJ Open Quality JO - BMJ Open Qual DO - 10.1136/bmjoq-2020-001176 VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - e001176 AU - Lucie Alem AU - Julie Bacqué AU - Jérémy Guihenneuc AU - Henri Delelis-Fanien AU - Olivier Mimoz AU - Virginie Migeot Y1 - 2021/05/01 UR - http://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/10/2/e001176.abstract N2 - Introduction Emergency medical regulation is a risky activity. In France, emergency medical societies have proposed activity and performance indicators, but their lists are non-exhaustive, unstructured and used heterogeneously among emergency medical call centres (Centres de Réception et de Régulation des Appels, CRRA). Our objective was to build by means of regional stakeholder consensus an operational quality dashboard for CRRAs.Methods We conducted an observational step in a French CRRA from June to September 2018 and at the same time listed existing activity and quality indicators through a rapid international literature review. We adapted and classified all indicators identified in a structured table. We prioritised them from April to September 2019 by seeking consensus with one regulator physician and one medical regulation assistant from the 13 CRRAs of the largest French region. We used an adapted Delphi method with a prioritisation scale from 1 to 9.Results The rapid review of literature included 33 studies among the 414 identified and, with the first observational step, resulted in a list of 360 quality indicators covering the following areas: material resources, human resources, quality approach, call handling and postcall support. 15 of the 26 members participated in the entire process. Seventy indicators were considered as priorities with strong agreement among participants. We built an operational dashboard of quality indicators deemed high priority and provided 70 descriptive indicator sheets.Conclusion Our study allowed to build an operational quality dashboard for CRRAs as a ready-to-use support for an internal audit, for prioritisation of quality approach actions and for national and international benchmarking.Data are available upon reasonable request. Data available include survey results and spreadsheets. Other documents available are survey items and newsletter sent. Data will be available immediately following publication, with no end date. Data available from LA (ID ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5964-288X). ER -