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How Resilient Are Our Societies? Analyses, Models, and Preliminary Results

open access: yes, 2015
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
core  

Microbial air quality and bacterial surface contamination in ambulances during patient services.

open access: yesOman Medical Journal, 2015
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Should We Use Citizens' Assemblies to Make Health Policy?

open access: yesBioethics, 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

The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes
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]

open access: yes, 2012
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
core   +1 more source

Speech Recognition Technology: Improving Speed and Accuracy of Emergency Medical Services Documentation to Protect Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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
core   +2 more sources

Efficient triage and improved patient care: Five years of teledermatology in Styria

open access: yesJDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post‐coup Myanmar

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Inter‐Municipal Collaboration Challenges: 'In‐Tensions' in Shared Service Center and Joint Venture Arrangements

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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