View a Physician's Certification Statement (PCS) in an incident
A Physician's Certification Statement (PCS) is required for patients who are under the direct care of a physician and are required for scheduled and non-scheduled non-emergency ambulance transports. The physician is responsible for supervising the medical care of the patient, including reviewing the patient’s program of care, ordering medications, monitoring changes in the patient’s medical status, and signing and dating all orders.
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Find the incident you want to view the PCS for, as described in Find an incident by date, or in Search for an incident.
In the lower left corner of the page, a Results section appears, listing all of the incidents that match the search criteria you defined.
- (If necessary) Click a column name in the title bar to sort the contents of the column from ascending to descending order, or back again.
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Do one of the following.
View other incident details before viewing the PCS
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For the row containing the incident you want to view the PCS for, click Details.
A separate web browser window opens, and the Incident Details for Incident Number page appears in it.
View the PCS while assessing the incident for QA/QI
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For the row containing the incident you want to assess for QA/QI, choose Quick Actions → QA / QI.
Note: The incident must have a status of Complete or QA Complete for the QA / QI option to activate.
A separate web browser window opens, and displays the QA/QI Notes for Incident Number section at the top, and the patient care report (PCR) at the bottom. By default, the Patient Care Report section of the page contains the standard summary form for a PCR.
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Under Forms, click PCS.
Note: The PCS icon appears on the QA/QI Notes for Incident Number page, and is activated on the Incident Details page, only if the medic filled out a PCS for the incident.
The information in the Patient Care Report section of the page updates to display the PCS from the incident.
