QLD Ambulance Service Patient Care Record

Populated Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) patient care records: electronic Ambulance Report Forms (eARF, earlier ePARF), paper ambulance report forms and paramedic patient care records or reports. They record the patient, the case or incident, chief complaint and mechanism of injury, vital-sign observations, treatment and medicines given, and the transport destination or hospital handover. Copies are requested by hospitals, police, insurers, lawyers and coroners, and travel outside the QAS clinical system. Boundary: hospital clinical handover sheets belong to au-qld-health-clinical-handover; police incident reports to qps-incident-report.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: eARF and ambulance report form wording is specific, and enforce tiers need a populated patient and a populated clinical field. "Patient care record" is also used by aged care and hospital systems; those records reach 75 when they carry observations or treatment, which is health information about a person, and only reach 85 with a case number or QAS provenance.
Jurisdictions: au, au-qld
Regulations: Ambulance Service Act 1991 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), NDB Scheme (Cth)
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701, QGISCF
Data categories: phi, health, pii
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:e-?P?ARF|(?:electronic\s+)?ambulance\s+report\s+form|patient\s+care\s+record|ambulance\s+(?:patient\s+)?(?:care\s+)?(?:record|report)|paramedic\s+(?:patient\s+)?(?:care\s+)?(?:record|report))\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

Queensland Ambulance Service, case number, observations, transport destination, chief complaint, GCS

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

eARF Case number: 2026-1014-000000 Patient: Jordan Teston DOB: 12/12/1948 Chief complaint: Central chest pain 40 min Observations: HR 112, BP 92/60, SpO2 94 percent RA, GCS 15 Treatment: Aspirin 300 mg, GTN 400 mcg SL Transport destination: Princess Alexandra Hospital ED — 85 tier - eARF with case number, patient, chief complaint, observations, treatment and destination
Patient care record - Queensland Ambulance Service Patient name: Riley Teston Mechanism of injury: Motorcycle versus car at 60 km/h GCS: 13 Transported to: Gold Coast University Hospital — 85 tier - patient care record with QAS provenance, patient, mechanism, GCS and destination
Ambulance report form Patient: Morgan Teston Pain score: 7/10 Drugs administered: Methoxyflurane 3 mL inhaled — 75 tier - ambulance report form with patient and treatment, no case number or provenance

Should not match

Clinical Practice Manual: this guideline describes what paramedics must record in the eARF, including observations, treatment, transport destination and handover. Training module for graduate paramedics. — QAS Clinical Practice Manual / training text (65 at most)
Ambulance report form Patient: ____________________ Case number: ____________________ Observations: ____________________ Transport destination: ____________________ — Blank ambulance report form (65 at most)
News: QAS paramedics responded to a two-vehicle crash on the Bruce Highway this morning; two people were taken to hospital in a stable condition. — News report about an ambulance response (no match)
Requests for a copy of an ambulance record must be made in writing; see the patient information page on how to apply and what fees apply. — Patient information about requesting records (65 at most)

Known false positives

QAS Clinical Practice Manual, paramedic training material and procedures that list eARF fields. Mitigation: No populated patient or clinical field, and manual, guideline, training and patient-information framing is excluded from enforce tiers.
Aged care and hospital "patient care record" printouts with observations. Mitigation: These are health records about a person and are acceptable at 75; 85 needs a case number or QAS provenance.