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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2022 Background An effective emergency medical dispatch process is vital to provide appropriate prehospital care to patients. It increases patient safety and ensures the sustainable use of medical resources.
Sterre Otten +6 more
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Development of the organization of emergency medical care in Bulgaria - a challenge for the healthcare system [PDF]
, 2021 In the early 1970s, medical emergencies became a political problem throughout Europe. However, the concept of medical emergencies has an older history, at the intersection of the history of medical techniques, patient treatment and social perception of ...
Katrandzhiev, Iliya; Medical University of Varna +1 more
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Investigation of the Effect of Ergonomic Intervention on Medical Emergency Announce Time of Dispatch in Alborz [PDF]
Muhandisī-i bihdāsht-i ḥirfah/ī, 2019 Background and Objective: Effective communication is an important factor in pre-hospital care. The emergency medical communication and dispatch center is one of the most stressful work environments in the healthcare domain so that it is essential to ...
Ali Taherinia +3 more
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BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives This study aimed to assess whether trigger tools were useful identifying triage errors among patients referred to non-emergency care by emergency medical dispatch nurses, and to describe the characteristics of these patients.Design An ...
Ulrika Winblad +5 more
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Connect dispatch centers for call handling improves performance
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2019 The aim of this Letter to the Editor was to report a strategy to reduce time waiting for emergency calls in a dispatch center, in line with a recently published article that reviewed evidence for medical dispatching systems to accurately dispatch ...
Yann Penverne +7 more
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Telephonic description of sepsis among callers to an emergency dispatch centre in South Africa
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020 Introduction: Sepsis is an acute, life-threatening condition caused by a dysregulated systemic response to infection. Early medical intervention such as antibiotics and fluid resuscitation can be life-saving.
Willem Stassen, PhD +3 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background Selection of incidents and accurate identification of patients that require assistance from physician-staffed emergency medical services (P-EMS) remain essential.
Martin Samdal +4 more
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International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) often face significant challenges related to providing effective pre-hospital care services. Barriers to providing care include lack of financial resources, poor road infrastructure, lack of trained ...
Claire L. Jacobson +4 more
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BMJ Open, 2019 ObjectivesEvaluating whether future studies to develop prediction models for early readmissions based on health insurance claims data available at the time of a hospitalisation are worthwhile.DesignRetrospective cohort study of hospital admissions with ...
Yu Cao +6 more
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BMJ Open, 2019 ObjectivesTo access the epidemiological characteristics of elderly people using emergency medical services (EMS) in Beijing, as a consequence of injurious falls, and the association between an ageing population and injurious falls.DesignA longitudinal ...
Yu Cao +6 more
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