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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

A Dynamic Redeployment System for Critical Care Paramedic Units in Qatar Utilizing Deep Reinforcement Learning

IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems
Timely ambulance allocation is essential for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to deliver life-saving care effectively. Conventional methods often struggle to adapt to the unpredictable nature and locations of emergencies.
Reem Tluli, Ahmed Badawy, Saeed Salem, Muhammad Hardan, Sailesh Chauhan, Guillaume Alinier   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defining criteria to choose appropriate destination hospital for trauma patients: Piacenza Local Health Authority’s Piacenza trauma algorithm protocol

Emergency Care Journal, 2016
Ambulance crew’s choosing of appropriate destination hospital for trauma patients can affect survival and morbidity outcomes. Aim of the present study is to devise a decision-making algorithm in order to allow the best choice of destination hospital for ...
Fabio Mozzarelli, Stefano Nani, Enrica Rossi, Mario Pizzamiglio   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring frailty and its association with key outcomes in the ambulance setting: a cross sectional observational study

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Little is known about frailty in the ambulance setting, or its association with outcomes relevant to ambulance services. We sought to measure frailty in people aged ≥ 50 attended by an ambulance, and describe the relationship between frailty ...
Karl Charlton, David R Sinclair, Barbara Hanratty, Emma Burrow, Daniel Stow   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development and pilot of clinical performance indicators for English ambulance services [PDF]

, 2010
Introduction: There is a compelling need to develop clinical performance indicators for ambulance services in order to move from indicators based primarily on response times and in light of the changing clinical demands on services.
Black, Sarah, Donohoe, Rachel, National Ambulance Clinical Audit Steering Group, Shaw, Deborah, Siriwardena, Aloysius, Stephenson, John   +5 more
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Development, implementation, and evaluation of a state‐wide gastrostomy training program: A proposed education model

Nutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim Patients receiving home enteral tube feeding have a high risk of complications and readmission to hospital. Enteral nutrition training for health professionals is essential but often not included in basic training curricula. This paper aims to (i) outline the development of a state‐wide gastrostomy training program and (ii) undertake a 7 ...
Sharon Carey, Kimberley Bostock, Shannon Matthews, Courtney Still, Rachel Hardy, Kai Cheng, Anastasia Volovets, David Storey   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes over time in hallucinogen‐related emergency department visits in Ontario, Canada

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Recent increasing interest in hallucinogens has underscored the critical gaps in our understanding of their adverse health effects and healthcare usage over time. The current study aimed to examine changes in emergency department (ED) visit rates involving hallucinogens, clinical outcomes of visits and the characteristics ...
Daniel T. Myran, Rachael MacDonald‐Spracklin, Alexander R. Levesque, Michael Pugliese, Jess G. Fiedorowicz, André J. McDonald, Joshua D. Rosenblat, Ian Colman, Josephine Zein, Marco Solmi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facilitators and barriers to the delivery of the PARAMEDIC2 trial

Resuscitation Plus
Background: PARAMEDIC2 was a medicines trial comparing adrenaline with placebo in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). At the time, United Kingdom (UK) Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) were inexperienced in delivering such research.
Helen Pocock, Nigel Rees, Imogen Gunson, Mark Docherty, Karl Charlton, Michelle Jackson, Charlotte Scomparin, Ed England, Rachael Fothergill   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Safer prehospital anaesthesia: updated guidelines from the Association of Anaesthetists

Anaesthesia, EarlyView.
Summary Introduction Prehospital emergency anaesthesia is recognised as a high‐risk clinical intervention. These updated guidelines consider changes in prehospital practice and parallel changes in the practice of in‐hospital emergency anaesthesia, with the aim of encouraging standardised safe anaesthetic practice in a challenging clinical area.
David Lockey, Celestine Weegenaar, Imran Ahmad, Pascale Avery, Philip Cowburn, Richard M. Lyon, Giles Nordmann, Andrew J. Pountney, Cosmo F. M. Scurr, Matthew D. Wiles   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two Decades of Evolution in Abdominal Trauma Surgery: Trends, Outcomes, and Implications From an Australian Level 1 Trauma Centre

ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Advances in imaging, non‐operative management, and endovascular techniques have reshaped abdominal trauma care, but their impact on operative trends in blunt‐dominant Australian trauma systems is incompletely described. Aims To describe temporal trends in operative and minimally invasive management of abdominal trauma at an ...
Michael Noonan, Ee‐Jun Ban, Frederick Huynh, Charles H. C. Pilgrim, Gerard S. Goh, Jeffrey W. Lai, Mark Fitzgerald   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source