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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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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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“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
doaj   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +2 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 model of care: an observational, ethnographic case study [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2015
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, Peter, Stirling, Christine, Ruest, Michel, Martin, Angela   +3 more
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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   +4 more sources

Examining consensus for a standardised patient assessment in community paramedicine home visits: a RAND/UCLA-modified Delphi Study [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2019
Objective Community paramedicine programme are often designed to address repeated and non-urgent use of paramedic services by providing patients with alternatives to the traditional ‘treat and transport’ ambulance model of care.
Gina Agarwal, Matthew S Leyenaar, Ryan P Strum, Alan M Batt, Samir Sinha, Michael Nolan, Walter Tavares, Andrew P Costa   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Realist evaluation of the community paramedicine at clinic (CP@clinic) programme in rural Australian community health: protocol [PDF]

BMJ Open
Introduction The healthcare challenges associated with multimorbidity, population ageing and socioeconomic disadvantage are well known. This requires primary care services to adapt to greater population complexity and embrace new models of care.
Fan He, Gina Agarwal, Renee Sharples, Leigh Kinsman, Evelien Spelten, Louise Reynolds, Ruth Hardman, Laura Hemming   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources