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Detection of obvious death by clinically trained emergency medical dispatchers in a criteria-based dispatch system. [PDF]

Int J Emerg Med
Jaspard L, Beysard N, Dami F.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Proposing A Key Performance Indicator For Security Response Time Within A Healthcare Facility

The Journal of Medicine, Law & Public Health, 2023
INTRODUCTION The safety of patients and property in healthcare settings is directly influenced by security response time, yet this critical aspect is often overlooked.
Ghaida Almahawes, Anas AlToijry, Rawan Alboqami , Saud Alnahdi , Bandr Mzahim   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristics of Allergy-related Emergency Medical Calls: A Retrospective Dispatch-based Study. [PDF]

Zdr Varst
Metličar Š, Blatnik T, Strnad M, Borovnik Lesjak V.   +3 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Discovering Key Topics in Emergency Medical Dispatch from Free Text Dispatcher Observations

Medical Informatics Europe, 2022
The objective of this work was to discover key topics latent in free text dispatcher observations registered during emergency medical calls. We used a total of 1374931 independent retrospective cases from the Valencian emergency medical dispatch service ...
Pablo Ferri Borreda, C. Sáez, Antonio Felix de Castro, Purificación Sánchez-Cuesta, J. M. García-Gómez   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reduction of MERS-CoV Transmission among Healthcare Workers and Patients in Saudi Arabian Healthcare Settings: A Scoping Review

The Journal of Medicine, Law & Public Health, 2023
Background No review consolidating available evidence of the various interventions for preventing MERS-CoV transmission in healthcare settings has been published to inform practice.
Salem Al Ammi, Bandr Mzahim, Hisham Alomari, Bandar Almutairi, Abdulrahman Alzahrani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Better safe than sorry: Registered nurses' strategies for handling difficult calls to emergency medical dispatch centres - An interview study.

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2021
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To describe strategies employed by registered nurses for handling difficult calls to emergency medical dispatch centres. BACKGROUND At emergency medical dispatch centres, registered nurses encounter a range of difficult calls in ...
I. Holmström, Elenor Kaminsky, Ylva Lindberg, Douglas Spangler, U. Winblad   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The organization of ambulance decontamination during the COVID-19 pandemic: a process analysis based on the Lean Thinking philosophy

Emergency Care Journal, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic led to massively increased emergency medical services (EMS) activity. The need to decontaminate emergency vehicles after conveying a suspected or confirmed patient to the hospital represented a critical step, slowing the activities ...
Guglielmo Imbriaco, Alfonso Flauto
doaj   +1 more source

The “unclear problem” category: an analysis of its patient and dispatch characteristics and its trend over time

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, Cassandra Rehbock, Thomas Krafft, Martin Vang Haugaard, Eva Pilot, Stig Nikolaj Blomberg, Helle Collatz Christensen   +6 more
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Registered nurses' understandings of emergency medical dispatch centre work - A qualitative phenomenographic interview study.

Nursing and Health Sciences, 2021
Non-urgent and urgent telephone nursing services are increasing globally, and phenomenographic research has shown that how work is understood may influence work performance.
Elenor Kaminsky, Ylva Lindberg, Douglas Spangler, U. Winblad, I. Holmström   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Utility of Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) Telephone Screening in Identifying COVID-19 Positive Patients

Prehospital Emergency Care, 2021
Background: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems have received guidelines as part of coordinated response efforts aimed at mitigating exposures and ensuring occupational wellbeing, including recommendations of ...
M. McCann-Pineo, Timmy Li, P. Barbara, Brian Levinsky, James Debono, J. Berkowitz   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source