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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, Togher, Fiona, Windle, Karen   +2 more
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What clinical crew competencies and qualifications are required for helicopter emergency medical services? A review of the literature

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2020
Background Patients served by Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) tend to be acutely injured or unwell and in need of stabilisation followed by rapid and safe transport. It is therefore hypothesised that a particular clinical crew composition is
Siobhán Masterson, Conor Deasy, Mark Doyle, David Hennelly, Shane Knox, Jan Sorensen   +5 more
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The association between geospatial and temporal factors and pre-hospital response to major trauma: a retrospective cohort study in the North of England

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background Major trauma is a leading cause of premature death and disability worldwide, and many healthcare systems seek to improve outcomes following severe injury with provision of pre-hospital critical care.
Ryan D McHenry, Christopher A Smith
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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, Christopher I. Price, CI Price, CS Kidwell, CS Kwok, D Kleindorfer, DA Quain, FI Mahoney, G Saposnik, Gary A. Ford, H Kamel, Helen Rodgers, HJ Audebert, I Mosley, J Harbison, Jay Duckett, JE Bray, JE Bray, JI Spark, JM Kerns, JM Wardlaw, Joanne Gray, Karen Portas, MM Rymer, N Nagaraja, NU Weir, Peter McMeekin, PU Heuschmann, R Bonita, R Mikulík, Ruth Wood, S Abilleira, SC Cramer, TN Turan, Victoria Rae, Y Teuschl, YM Mohammad, YS Kim   +37 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, A Gruneir, AC Bebbington, ACL Ong, C Girio-Fragkoulakis, C Goodman, Care Quality Commission, CE Stephens, Claire Goodman, Derek King, Elspeth Mathie, Ina Machen, J Beecham, JS Mitchell, L Carter, M Kirsebom, MA Becker, Natasha Elmore, NJ Nagelkerke, P Parsons, RJ Ackermann, S Godden, Sarah Amador, Steve Iliffe, T Quinn, ᅟ   +25 more
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Defining major trauma: a Delphi study

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021
Introduction Retrospective trauma scores are often used to categorise trauma, however, they have little utility in the prehospital or hyper-acute setting and do not define major trauma to non-specialists.
Lee Thompson, Michael Hill, Fiona Lecky, Gary Shaw   +3 more
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A National Survey of Prehospital Care Services of United Kingdom for Use, Governance and Perception of Prehospital Point of Care Ultrasound

POCUS Journal, 2022
Introduction: Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) has become a common practice in prehospital care over the last 10 years. There is lack of literature on its use and governance structure in United Kingdom (UK) prehospital care services.
Salman Naeem, Christopher Edmunds, Thomas Hirst, Julia Williams, Amir Alzarrad, James Ronaldson, Jon Barratt, East Anglian Air Ambulance Research, Audit, Innovation and Development Group, Pre-hospital Trainee Operated Research Network   +8 more
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Understanding variation in ambulance service non-conveyance rates: a mixed methods study [PDF]

, 2018
Background In England in 2015/16, ambulance services responded to nearly 11 million calls. Ambulance Quality Indicators show that half of the patients receiving a response by telephone or face to face were not conveyed to an emergency department.
Bishop-Edwards, L., Coster, J., Crum, A., Jacques, R., James, C., Knowles, E., Lawson, R., Marsh, M., O’Cathain, A., O’Hara, R., Siriwardena, A.N., Stone, T., Turner, J., Williams, J.   +13 more
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Prehospital critical care is associated with increased survival in adult trauma patients in Scotland [PDF]

, 2020
Background Scotland has three prehospital critical care teams (PHCCTs) providing enhanced care support to a usually paramedic-delivered ambulance service.
Carr, David, Corfield, Alasdair R., Donald, Michael J., Fitzpatrick, David, Hearns, Stephen, Lyon, Richard M., Maddock, Alistair, Sinclair, Neil   +7 more
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Being secure in insecurity : aspects of caring in the ambulance service [PDF]

, 2015
Ambulance care focuses foremost on medical care and treatment. On the one hand the ambulance service encounters persons suffering acute and severe physical illness or injuries; conversely ambulance patients are described, as being vulnerable to more ...
Holmberg, Mats
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