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Lumping disparate emergency dispatch priority levels together creates an assumption error regarding 'overtriage'. [PDF]

Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med
Scott G, Clawson J, Olola C, Miko M, Schultz B, Patterson B.   +5 more
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Feasibility and utility of telemedical support through a paramedic-led primary response service to aid emergency services in northwestern Germany. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Overheu D, Schäfer ST, Rosner B, Warnecke T, Jacobsen N.   +4 more
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Learning Emergency Medical Dispatch Policies Via Genetic Programming

Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2023
Of great value to modern municipalities is the task of emergency medical response in the community. Resource allocation is vital to ensure minimal response times, which we may perform via human experts or automate by maximising ambulance coverage.
Jordan MacLachlan, Yi Mei, Fangfang Zhang, Mengjie Zhang, Jessica Signal   +4 more
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Emergency medical services priority dispatch

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1993
To test the ability of a locally designed priority dispatch system to safely exclude the need for advanced life support (ALS).Retrospective review of emergency medical services (EMS) incident records to determine how often the lone dispatch of basic life support (BLS) units, staffed with basic emergency medical technicians, subsequently required or ...
P A, Curka, P E, Pepe, V F, Ginger, R C, Sherrard, M V, Ivy, B S, Zachariah   +5 more
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Emergency medical dispatch

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2002
EMD will always remain somewhat of an imprecise science by nature. 911 is, after all, the access point for lifesaving assistance, and citizens must have absolute freedom to this service. The consequence of having the freedom to request help from any location at any time is that some individuals will use it for the wrong reasons. Present-day dispatchers
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Emergency medical dispatching by general practitioners in Brussels

European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1995
The objective of this study was to introduce general practitioners (GPs) to the existing emergency medical services (EMS) system, in order to improve the response to emergency residential calls. The study was based in Brussels, which has 1 million residents. A GP dispatcher (GPD) was placed in the emergency dispatch centre, with a stand-by GP, together
W, Renier, B, Seys
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A priority dispatch system for emergency medical services

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1985
A decision tree priority dispatch system for emergency medical services (EMS) was developed and implemented in Atlanta and Fulton County, Georgia. The dispatch system shortened the average response time from 14.2 minutes to 10.4 minutes for the 30% of patients deemed most urgent (P less than or equal to .05); resulted in a significant increase in the ...
C M, Slovis, T B, Carruth, W J, Seitz, C M, Thomas, W R, Elsea   +4 more
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The development of emergency medical dispatch in the USA

European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1995
Emergency medical dispatch has evolved over the last 25 years from a system designed to limit abuse of the emergency medical services (EMS) to a sophisticated part of the total EMS response. Its current goal is to send the right thing to the right person at the right time in the right way and to do the right thing until help arrives.
B S, Zachariah, P E, Pepe
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Handling of drug-related emergencies: an evaluation of emergency medical dispatch

European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2009
Documenting the quality of emergency dispatch centres handling of emergency calls regarding intoxicated unconscious patients.Interview with eight emergency dispatch centre directors and a nationwide survey among 313 dispatchers in Norway were performed.
Lorem, Tonje, Saether, Elisabeth, Wik, Lars   +2 more
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Triage By Emergency Medical Dispatchers

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 1992
AbstractPurpose:This study is an evaluation of the ability of medically trained and controlled emergency medical dispatchers to use telephone triage techniques to direct the appropriate prehospital unit to an emergency scene.Methods:Emergency dispatchers, educated in a formal emergency medical dispatch program, were assigned one of four triage ...
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