How Resilient Are Our Societies? Analyses, Models, and Preliminary Results
Traditional social organizations such as those for the management of healthcare and civil defence are the result of designs and realizations that matched well with an operational context considerably different from the one we are experiencing today: A ...
De Florio, Vincenzo, Pajaziti, Arianit
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Microbial air quality and bacterial surface contamination in ambulances during patient services.
OBJECTIVES We sought to assess microbial air quality and bacterial surface contamination on medical instruments and the surrounding areas among 30 ambulance runs during service.
P. Luksamijarulkul, Sirikun Pipitsangjan
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Should We Use Citizens' Assemblies to Make Health Policy?
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
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The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes [PDF]
This paper analyzes the productivity of technology and job design in emergency response systems, or 911 systems.' During the 1990s, many 911 systems adopted Enhanced 911' (E911), where information technology is used to link automatic caller ...
Scott Stern, Susan Athey
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24th Canadian Field Ambulance Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps [PDF]
The 24th Field Ambulance, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, was the only complete Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario unit mobilized and sent overseas in the Second World War. Today few know its story in spite of an active veterans’ association.
Russell, Harold
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Speech Recognition Technology: Improving Speed and Accuracy of Emergency Medical Services Documentation to Protect Patients [PDF]
Because hospital errors, such as mistakes in documentation, cause one in six deaths each year in the United States, the accuracy of health records in the emergency medical services (EMS) must be improved.
Tran, Tan
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Use of the automatic external defibrillator-pacemaker by ambulance personnel: the Stockport experience. [PDF]
Alasdair Gray +2 more
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Efficient triage and improved patient care: Five years of teledermatology in Styria
Summary Background To improve dermatological care in underserved rural regions, the “Teledermatology in Styria” project launched on January 1st, 2020. General practitioners (GP) were digitally connected with dermatologists (DERM), supported by Styrian Health Fund, Styrian Medical Association, Austrian Health Insurance Fund Styria, Universities ...
Arzberger Edith +4 more
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Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post‐coup Myanmar
ABSTRACT Following Myanmar's military coup in February 2021, the State Administrative Council (SAC) established checkpoints between towns under its control and rural areas increasingly governed by anti‐junta resistance forces. Here, military personnel command trade and extort from people, inflating the price of consumer goods and agricultural inputs ...
Gerard McCarthy, Kyle Nyana
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ABSTRACT Municipal collaborations such as shared service centers and joint ventures are widely promoted as ways to strengthen local service capacity. Yet they often develop in uneven and sometimes unstable ways. This paper examines why arrangements built on similar institutional promises take such different trajectories in practice.
Isabell Meltzer +1 more
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