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Community paramedicine is growing in impact and potential. [PDF]

CMAJ, 2018
[See related article at [www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.170740][2]][2] KEY POINTS Increasingly, paramedics are being recognized as uniquely positioned to support sustainable and high-quality health care delivery to Canada’s aging population.
Nolan MJ, Nolan KE, Sinha SK.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Empowering Patient Self-Management: A Community Paramedicine Model of Care in Ontario

Health Reform Observer - Observatoire des Réformes de Santé, 2022
Community Paramedicine Remote Patient Monitoring (CPRPM) was launched in Ontario in April 2015 to address high health system usage in vulnerable patients living with chronic disease.
Sarah Turner
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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Community paramedicine program and outcomes of referred coronary artery bypass grafting patients [PDF]

Rural and Remote Health
Introduction: Community paramedicine is a field in its infancy. The use of community paramedics has expanded in recent years as an alternative or adjunct to home health in the continued drive to decrease health disparities and complications. In current
Regan Washist, Casey Smith, Tyler Kientopf   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

“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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Community paramedicine model of care: an observational, ethnographic case study. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res, 2016
Background: Community paramedicine programs have emerged throughout North America and beyond in response to demographic changes and health system reform. Our aim was to identify and analyse how community paramedics create and maintain new role boundaries and identities in terms of flexibility and permeability and through this develop and frame a ...
O'Meara P, Stirling C, Ruest M, Martin A.   +3 more
europepmc   +5 more sources

Exploring the feasibility and acceptability of community paramedicine programs in achieving vaccination equity: a qualitative study [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Background Mobile Integrated Health-Community Paramedicine (MIH-CP) is a novel approach that may reduce the rural-urban disparity in vaccination uptake in the United States.
Monica L. Kasting, Alfu Laily, Sidney J. Smith, Sathveka Sembian, Katharine J. Head, Bukola Usidame, Gregory D. Zimet, Laura M. Schwab-Reese   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Community Paramedicine: 911 Alternative Destinations Are a Patient Safety Issue [PDF]

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2017
Nick T. Sawyer, John D. Coburn
doaj   +7 more sources

Community Paramedicine Intervention Reduces Hospital Readmission and Emergency Department Utilization for Patients with Cardiopulmonary Conditions [PDF]

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023
Objective: Patients discharged from the hospital with diagnoses of myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure or acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have high rates of readmission. We sought to quantify the impact of a
Aaron Burnett, Sandi Wewerka, Paula Miller, Ann Majerus, John Clark, Landon Crippes, Tia Radant   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources