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An examination of the emerging field of community paramedicine: a national cross-sectional survey of community paramedics [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Community Paramedicine is an evolving community-based model that expands paramedic roles from emergency and transport care to a focus on non-emergent and preventive health services tailored to local community needs.
Chinyere Mma Okoh, Leticia R. Moczygemba, Whitney Thurman, Carolyn Brown, Christopher Hanson, James O. Baffoe   +5 more
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Community paramedicine in Central Oregon: A promising model to reduce non‐urgent emergency department utilization among medically complex Medicaid beneficiaries [PDF]

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2023
Background Community paramedicine has emerged as a promising model to redirect persons with nonmedically emergent conditions to more appropriate and less expensive community‐based health care settings.
Jessica Currier, Neal Wallace, Keshia Bigler, Maggie O'Connor, Paige Farris, Jackilen Shannon   +5 more
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Community paramedicine: cost–benefit analysis and safety evaluation in paramedical emergency services in rural areas – a scoping review [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective To examine the current knowledge and possibly identify gaps in the knowledge base for cost–benefit analysis and safety concerning community paramedicine in rural areas.Design Scoping review.Data sources MEDLINE via PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane and ...
Hege Selnes Haugdahl, Marianne Lysne, Odd Eirik Elden, Oddvar Uleberg   +3 more
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Developing the Community Paramedicine Needs Assessment Tool [PDF]

Nursing Reports
Background/Objectives: Community paramedicine programs have existed since the early 2000s, and while resource optimization remains a predominant driver, innovation in recent years demonstrates that when community paramedicine is integrated into ...
Tyne M. Markides, Brendan Shannon, Cheryl Cameron, Aman Hussain, Liz Caperon, Alan M. Batt   +5 more
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Relevance of assessment items in community paramedicine home visit programmes: results of a modified Delphi study [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective Guidelines for a structured assessment in community paramedicine home visit programmes have not been established and evidence to inform their creation is lacking.
Gina Agarwal, Matthew S Leyenaar, Michael Nolan, Walter Tavares, Andrew P Costa, Samir K Sinha, Amir Allana   +6 more
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Community paramedicine—cost–benefit analysis and safety with paramedical emergency services in rural areas: scoping review protocol [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Community paramedicine models have been developed around the world in response to demographic changes, healthcare system needs and reforms.
Hege Selnes Haugdahl, Marianne Lysne, Odd Eirik Elden, Oddvar Uleberg   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Adapting the Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) program to a remote northern First Nation community: a qualitative study of community members’ and local health care providers’ views [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2023
The views of community Elders and health care providers in a rural remote First Nation community in Ontario, Canada on their health care landscape and adapting the Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) Program to their community are presented. Key
Amelia Keenan, Pauneez Sadri, Francine Marzanek, Melissa Pirrie, Ricardo Angeles, Gina Agarwal   +5 more
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“They’re very passionate about making sure that women stay healthy”: a qualitative examination of women’s experiences participating in a community paramedicine program [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Community paramedicine programs (i.e., physician-directed preventive care by emergency medical services personnel embedded in communities) offer a novel approach to community-based health care. Project Swaddle, a community paramedicine program
Laura M. Schwab-Reese, Lynette M. Renner, Hannah King, R. Paul Miller, Darren Forman, Joshua S. Krumenacker, Andrea L. DeMaria   +6 more
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A qualitative RE-AIM evaluation of an embedded community paramedicine program in an Ontario Family Health Team [PDF]

BMC Primary Care
Background In 2014, a rural Family Health Team (FHT) in Ontario, Canada embedded a community paramedicine program into their primary care practice to improve care for their complex patients.
Sarisha Philip, Lauren Konikoff, Samuel Tiukuvaara, Tracey Izzard, Kyle Sitka, Ghislain Bercier, Kimberley Hewton, Barry Bruce, Mark Fraser, Karen Ferguson, Chris LeBouthillier, Courtney Maskerine, Krystal Kehoe MacLeod   +12 more
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of a community paramedicine programme for low-income seniors living in subsidised housing: the community paramedicine at clinic programme (CP@clinic) [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) programme compared with usual care in seniors residing in subsidised housing.Design A cost–utility analysis was conducted within a large pragmatic cluster ...
Lehana Thabane, Daria O'Reilly
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