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The impacts of New York's balance billing regulation on ground ambulance pricing

Health Services Research, Volume 60, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract Objective To examine the effects of New York's surprise billing regulations on price changes by emergency ground ambulance service providers. Study Design We exploited a natural experiment using a difference‐in‐differences design with randomization inference (RI) to examine the effects of New York state regulations on the prices of emergency ...
Wendy Y. Xu, Christopher Garmon, Sheldon M. Retchin, Yiting Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges of air transport for patients: strategies and recommendations

Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology
Air transport of patients is a challenge that requires healthcare professionals to have a broad knowledge of the conditions and environment inside an aircraft cabin, as well as the physiological changes that patients experience.
Andersson Arias Hernández, Omar Fernando Gomezese Ribero   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cabin temperature during prehospital patient transport – a prospective observational study

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2020
Background Few studies have investigated the patient compartment temperatures during ambulance missions or its relation to admission hypothermia. Still hypothermia is a known risk factor for increased mortality and morbidity in both trauma and disease ...
Tuva Svendsen, Inger Lund-Kordahl, Knut Fredriksen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The informal prisoner justice system: Classification, identification, and punishment of sex offenders behind bars

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on 576 interviews with incarcerated men and 131 correctional staff across five Western Canadian prisons, we reconceptualize the prison code as subcultural law, documenting the “informal prisoner justice system” as its enforcement arm. Although scholars have treated the code primarily as cultural values prescribing loyalty, silence, and
Luca Berardi, Justin E. C. Tetrault, Kevin D. Haggerty, Sandra Bucerius   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mission impossible or border security – Practical and effective infection control on air ambulances

African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013
Infection control on air ambulances is particularly difficult and although the principles have been well described in the hospital setting, not all of these can be applied to the air ambulance environment.
M. Kuhn*
doaj   +1 more source

Peri‐operative management of patients having day surgery: a consensus statement from the Association of Anaesthetists, British Association for Day Surgery and the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists, Great Britain and Ireland

Anaesthesia, EarlyView.
Summary Introduction Day surgery is now recognised widely as being a vital component of modern healthcare delivery with overall day surgery rates in the UK now > 85%. Day surgery offers an enhanced experience for patients with reduced risk of postoperative complications (e.g.
Craig R. Bailey, David Bunting, Lindsay Hudman, Shivan Kanani, Kirstin May, Catalina Stendall, Rachel Tibble, Allan Xu, Matthew D. Wiles   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Involvement in emergency situations by primary care doctors on-call in Norway - a prospective population-based observational study

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2010
Background Primary care doctors on-call in the emergency primary health care services in Norway are, together with the ambulances, the primary resources for handling emergencies outside hospitals.
Hunskaar Steinar, Zakariassen Erik
doaj   +1 more source

Should We Use Citizens' Assemblies to Make Health Policy?

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article assesses the normative case for using citizens' assemblies—small deliberative forums of randomly selected citizens—in health policymaking. Although they are increasingly popular, their normative justification remains underexplored. We reconstruct three possible rationales: Norman Daniels's ‘Accountability for Reasonableness’ (A4R)
Daniel Hutton Ferris, Johannes Kniess
wiley   +1 more source

Cost‐Effectiveness of Prehospital Ambulance Helicopter Transportation of Patients With Presumed Stroke in the Era of Mechanical Thrombectomy

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology
Background Mechanical thrombectomy has emerged as standard of care in treatment of patients with acute ischemic stroke attributable to large‐vessel occlusion.
Nicklas Ennab Vogel, Per Wester, Tobias Andersson Granberg, Lars‐Åke Levin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Objects of Affection: Deathly Encounters With Taxidermy, Stuffed Toys and Atmospheres

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how children and young people relate to death through affective atmospheres and embodied, imaginative encounters with taxidermy and stuffed toy animals. Using arts‐based research (ABR), we explore how death, affective atmospheres, empathy and materiality entangle during multispecies relations.
Rachel Sinquefield‐Kangas, Verneri Valasmo, Varpu Mehto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source