FAQ

• How can EMTs and EMTCCs access the MDS maker software?

Come to the MDS Gateway! https://www.mdsgateway.net/

• How can MoH EMTCC personnel adapt the MDS templates for integration within the national system?

• Insert of MoH logo to the template

• Insert "additonal items"

• What skills, knowledge, and values need to be included in various EMT and EMTCC training curricula relevant to MDS?

• For EMT:    Tools for EMT

  1. Medical Doctor to use Tick box on Medical Record.

  2. Data Manager to use the MDS Maker (Excel)

• For EMTCC:   Tools for EMTCC

  2. 1. MoH to endorce

     2. Data Manager to use the MDS Feedback Maker (Excel) or MDS Feedback Maker+ (Web)

• What added value does the tool offer us as EMTs?

• EMT Minimum Standard

• To visualize great humanitarian acitivites of your EMT

• EMTCC could provide overall picture of EMT clinical response to EMTs

• Inform clinical situation and help incoming EMTs

• To consolidate, publish it and adovocate donors/world

  ⇒  To secure clinical care access to the people in need

               For Ref. EMERGENCY MEDICAL TEAM MINIMUM DATA SET WORKING GROUP REPORT (2017)

①To enhance flow of standardized information between EMTs and EMTCC/MOH and

②To understand current medical demand/condition

③To support prompt and proper action/resource allocation

④To plan and act for optimum continuity of care

⑤To contribute to public health surveillance for specific diseases with epidemic potential or are a potential health threat to a population

⑥To allow improved EMT coordination to ensure coverage of needs and avoidance of duplication

⑦To support the needs of MOH to report health activity within a wider emergency or disaster response to the National disaster management authorities

⑧To support each EMT their optimum operation by feeding back collected information.

⑨To support Health care providers’ protection (disease early warning)

⑩To provide data for research and future planning

• As an EMT, can we access the data (of all teams) on a daily basis?

• Depends on policies of the MoH/EMTCC

  2. 1. WHO EURO dashboard Turkey

     2. WHO EMRO dashboard oPt

• Could it be made compatible with the ICD codes used globally for surveillance systems?

• Teqnically possible but difference in original purpose

  2. 1. ICD for classification of death 

     2. MDS  for  EMT response coordination

• How do we adapt following different natures of emergencies and different patient profiles?

  2. 1. By adding additional items (for Blue MDS)

     2. By developong contextual MDS (RED MDS)

• What essential data do we need to collect?

• That is the MDS!

• What will we do with the collected data?

• Data based EMT coordination 

• Is it possible to have a standardized, more complete list of diagnoses

• Depends on the team reporting capacity

• Is there a place where I can access a recorded training on the MDS?

• SIM

• POL

• Is there any way to get feedback on receiving emails with MDS reports?

• Depends on policies of the MoH/EMTCC

• How much data is enough?

• To detect trend, 100 for each celll as denominators.

• Will it become more user-friendly and clinically adequate for the work we do in EMTs?

• Revision of the Original MDS and provision of ICT tool could be options