The Hospital Outcome section is the final clinical handoff piece. It records what shape the patient was in when you got them there and who took report.
What to fill in
- Patient's condition at destination — improved, unchanged, worsened, or deceased.
- Receiving provider — the name of the nurse or doctor who took report.
- Receiving provider's role — RN, MD, PA, NP, etc.
Why this matters
"Patient's condition at destination" is one of the most-tracked outcome metrics in EMS. If you applied an intervention and the patient improved, this field shows it. If the patient worsened despite your care, this is where it gets recorded honestly. Reviewers and researchers use this field to evaluate care quality.
An example
You arrive at the STEMI center with the chest pain patient. He says his pain has dropped from 8/10 to 3/10 since the nitroglycerin. You take a final set of vitals — BP and heart rate are improved. You give report to the cardiac center charge nurse. In the Hospital Outcome section you mark Improved, enter the nurse's name, and pick RN as her role.