How Do I Perform an Advanced Search for Incident Reports?

In this lesson, you will learn how to do an "Advanced" search for incident reports. This can be useful if you would like to search for incidents that meet certain search criteria, such as all incidents with a chief complaint of chest pain, or any other criteria that you specify.

The "Basic" Search for Incident Reports

The "Basic" Search for Incident Reports

When you first visit the incidents sub-tab, you will see a few basic search functions. In this example, we will start by searching for the "Last 7 Days" of incident reports that were uploaded to the system and meet our advanced search criteria.

To start our search, you will need to specify a date or date range allowing you to view all reports within your selection.

When you click on the "From" field, you will have multiple options to select from:

  • Today: Display all data that is relevant for today's current date.
  • Last 7 Days: Display all data for the last seven (7) days worth of data.
  • Month to Date: Display all data for the current month (to current date).
  • Year to Date: Display all data for the current year (to current date).
  • The Previous Month: Display all the data for the entire previous month.
  • Date Range: This option will display a calendar and allow you to be selective of a date range. Simply select a "Start Date" and an "End Date" then click "Done."

In our example, we will start by selecting the "Last 7 Days."

Once you have selected your desired date or date range, simply press the "Advanced" button to be shown more search options.

After you have clicked on the "Advanced" button, you will be presented with many options to select.

Each section has been grouped according to how they are represented on the EMS form that you use.

You can select any of these sections by clicking on a row, which then displays even more options to select.

Select the section you would like to perform an advanced search, then inputtng the data that you would like to search .

In this example, we are searching for all incident reports within the last seven days that meet the following criteria:

  • Have a TeamMember number, or a paramedic/EMT number of "9213" that was on the incident.
  • All patients that had a chief complaint of "CP - Chest Pain"

Using our search criteria, we will then press the "SEARCH" button. The application will then display all results that meet our search criteria.

**NOTE: You can continue to add more search criteria, depending on the type of incidents for which you would like to search.

Your search results will then be presented to you in multiple fashions:

  1. A "cover flow" style of reports. You can navigate the incident reports by simply clicking on your desired report, or scroll to the left/right using the arrows located on either side of this section.
  2. An excel style list. This will list all your reports that have returned from your search criteria in an excel style report. You can scroll this window (left/right) to view all the "raw" data.
  3. Sometimes your search criteria will display many results. In this example, we can see that there are more pages of reports that have met our search criteria. Clicking on any of these other "page" buttons will then show you the other incident reports that did not fit on one page.
  4. If you would like, you have the ability to export your search results to an excel (XLS) spreadsheet. This spreadsheet will contain the "raw" data that is contained within each incident report.