An observational study of patient characteristics associated with the mode of admission to acute stroke services in North East, England [PDF]
, 2013 Objective Effective provision of urgent stroke care relies upon admission to hospital by emergency ambulance and may involve pre-hospital redirection.
Antony Bayer +37 more
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Development of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for use in the ambulance service [PDF]
, 2015 Background NHS health policy emphasises the crucial role of patient experience as a core component of high quality care, alongside effectiveness and safety. Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) measure patients’ experiences with their healthcare.
Siriwardena, A. Niroshan +2 more
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The mission characteristics of a newly implemented rural helicopter emergency medical service
BMC Emergency Medicine, 2018 Background Physician-staffed helicopter emergency services (HEMS) can provide benefit through the delivery of specialist competence and equipment to the prehospital scene and through expedient transport of critically ill patients to specialist care. This
Daniel Kornhall +4 more
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Emergency ambulance service involvement with residential care homes in the support of older people with dementia : an observational study [PDF]
, 2014 © 2014 Amador et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
A Gruneir +25 more
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Best practice advice on pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia & advanced airway management
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2019 Background Effective and timely airway management is a priority for sick and injured patients. The benefit and conduct of pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia (PHEA) and advanced airway management remains controversial but there are a proportion of ...
Kate Crewdson +5 more
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Evaluating the impact of a national naloxone programme on ambulance attendance at overdose incidents: a controlled time-series analysis [PDF]
, 2017 Background and Aims: It has been suggested that distributing naloxone to people who inject drugs (PWID) will lead to fewer attendances by emergency medical services at opioid-related overdose incidents if peer administration of naloxone was perceived ...
Ashworth +29 more
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Epidemiology, prehospital care and outcomes of patients arriving by ambulance with dyspnoea: An observational study [PDF]
, 2016 Background: This study aimed to determine epidemiology and outcome for patients presenting to emergency departments (ED) with shortness of breath who were transported by ambulance.
Archer, Peter +57 more
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Improving safety of using ambulance vehicles in large cities
, 2020 The safe use of ambulance vehicles is ensured by a number of factors, one of which is a proper technical condition of the suspension components, meeting the current requirements of megacities (Dezhurny et al. 2010, Yurkovskiy 2010).
A. Voitko +3 more
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Ambulance service operational improvement [PDF]
, 2013 This document is the accepted manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in International Paramedic Practice copyright © MA Healthcare, after peer review and technical editing by the Publisher.
Alinier, Guillaume, Hutton, David
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Non-conveyance in the ambulance service: a population-based cohort study in Stockholm, Sweden
BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives Non-conveyed patients represent a significant proportion of all patients cared for by ambulance services in the western world. However, scientific knowledge on non-conveyance is sparse.
J. Lederman +4 more
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