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Improving Transport Quality Together for Our Patients!
Ground Air Medical qUality Transport (GAMUT™) Quality Improvement Collaborative is a data analytics platform for medical transport programs to track, report, and evaluate their performance on transport-specific quality metrics.
Ground Air Medical qUality Transport (GAMUT™) Quality Improvement Collaborative is a data analytics platform for medical transport programs to track, report, and evaluate their performance on transport-specific quality metrics.
Quality Data in Three Easy Steps:
Submit your Monthly Transport Data
GAMUT Analyzes Your Data and Prepares User-Friendly Dashboards & Reports
Members Enjoy Data Visualization Alongside Other Gamut Members for Quality Improvement
WHAT METRICS DO WE COLLECT?
We collect over 40 metrics, some are listed below.
| ADVANCED AIRWAY MANAGEMENT |
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| Ventilator use in patients with advanced airways |
| Waveform capnography ventilated patients |
| First attempt endotracheal tube success |
| DASH 1A-Definitive airway “sans” hypoxia/hypotension on first attempt |
| Verification of ETT placement |
| Rapid Sequence intubation protocol compliance |
| Appropriately sized cuffed tracheal tube for pediatric patients (29 days to 17 years) |
| Use of supraglottic airway devices (SGAs) as primary invasive airway devices in transport patients |
| BLOOD/BLOOD PRODUCTS |
| Rate of transfusion-related allergic reactions |
| CLINICAL MANAGEMENT |
| Unintended neonatal hypothermia |
| Blood glucose check for altered mental status |
| Appropriate management of blood pressure for aortic emergencies |
| Steroids administered to asthmatics prior to arrival at destination hospital |
| Management of hypertension in hemorrhagic stroke |
| Reliable pain assessment |
| Antibiotic administration as early goal directed therapy for patients with suspected sepsis |
| Appropriate management of hemorrhagic shock |
| Patient temperature |
| Neonatal therapeutic hypothermia |
| Adult therapeutic hypothermia |
| VENTILATOR MANAGEMENT |
| Lung protective ventilation for transport patients |
| NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION |
| Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) failure during transport |
| CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION |
| Rate of CPR performed during transport |
| Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) effectiveness for transport patients |
| EFFICIENCY |
| Mobilization time of the transport team |
| Scene times for STEMI activation |
| Bedside times for STEMI activation |
| MATERNAL TRANSPORT |
| High Risk OB: Seizures |
| High Risk OB: Persistent Hypertension |
| High Risk OB: Delivery during transport |
| MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION |
| Clinical Documentation |
| SAFETY EVENTS |
| Medication errors on transport |
| Unplanned dislodgement of therapeutic devices |
| Rate of Serious Reportable Events (SREs) |
| Incidence of hypoxia during transport |
| Medical equipment failure |
| Adverse drug event during transport |
| Patient near miss or precursor adverse events |
| Rate of transport-related patient injuries |
| Rate of transport-related crew injuries |
| Vehicle crash/collision |
GAMUT OFFERS MANY FEATURES, INCLUDING:
- Customizable real-time benchmarking
- Streamlined simplistic data input process for monthly transport unit data collection
- New reporting functions
- Improved quality of data verification
- Notification of missing data
- CAMTS accreditation-ready reporting
- Interactive graphs with improved data visualization
- QI learning collaboratives for training and improvement
- 40+ consensus quality metrics
- Clarification of frequently discussed metrics
- Options for additional user roles and responsibilities
- Executive-ready summaries
GAMUT SUBSCRIPTION FEES
415+
Member Transport Programs
GAMUT members are based in over 13 countries including the USA, Australia, Spain, Brazil, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, England and Thailand.
3.3M+
Transports
GAMUT's data set represents data collected from over 3.3 million patient contacts, and growing.
40+
Quality Metrics to Improve Patient Care
GAMUT tracks a wide variety of consensus-based metrics used in the transport domain.
Accreditation-ready reporting
GAMUT reports can be used in submissions to transport accreditation organizations like CAMTS.
