New Jersey 9-1-1 Consolidation Study: Site Visit Results and Implications for Consolidation [PDF]
, 2006 In 1999, the Center for Government Services at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey completed a study of New Jersey's E9-1-1 system. The study offered a snapshot of the extensive and decentralized network of communications centers that receive ...
Bonny Fraser, Neil Ridley
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Mistriaged Advanced Life Support Patients in a Two-Tiered, Suburban Emergency Medical Services System [PDF]
, 2020 Introduction: Emergency medical services (EMS) systems exist to provide prehospital care in diverse environments throughout the world. Advanced Life Support (ALS) services can provide advanced care including 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), endotracheal ...
Bucher, Joshua +2 more
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An Online Decision-Theoretic Pipeline for Responder Dispatch
, 2019 The problem of dispatching emergency responders to service traffic accidents, fire, distress calls and crimes plagues urban areas across the globe. While such problems have been extensively looked at, most approaches are offline.
Duchi John +7 more
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Would a regional fire emergency communications center in Placer County improve efficiency for participating fire agencies? [PDF]
, 2022 Dispatch centers serve multiple functions within a community, dependent on the resources it controls. Centers operating in PC function as the primary 911 answering point, using “call-takers” and “dispatchers” to triage emergencies and respond the ...
Williams, Reginald
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Mpox Preparedness and Response 2024: Position Statement of The Disaster Management Experts Club
The Journal of Medicine, Law & Public HealthStatement of intent The worldwide re-emergence of mpox underlines the pressing necessity for a strengthened, coordinated, international strategy to manage and avert future outbreaks.
Heetaf Aloqaily +5 more
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BMJ Open, 2019 Objective To examine the association between time from emergency medical service vehicle dispatch to hospital arrival and 1-day and 30-day mortality.Design Register-based cohort study.Setting North Denmark Region (≈8000 km2, catchment population ≈600 000)
Kristian Kragholm +8 more
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Prehospital triage accuracy in a criteria based dispatch centre. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Priority dispatch accuracy is a key issue in optimizing the match between patients' medical needs and pre-hospital resources. This study measures the accuracy of a Criteria Based Dispatch (CBD) system, by evaluating discrepancies between ...
Carron, P.N. +5 more
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The accuracy of medical dispatch - a systematic review
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2018 Background It is a challenge to dispatch Emergency medical Services (EMS) appropriately with limited resources and maintaining patient safety; this requires accurate dispatching systems.
K. Bohm, L. Kurland
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NHS Direct: consistency of triage outcomes [PDF]
, 2003 OBJECTIVES: To examine the consistency of triage outcomes by nurses using four types of computerised decision support software in NHS Direct. METHODS: 119 scenarios were constructed based on calls to ambulance services that had been assigned the ...
Knowles, E. +4 more
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Broadening Responsibilities: Consideration Of The Potential To Broaden The Role Of Uniformed Fire Service Employees [PDF]
, 2017 What is this report about? This report, commissioned by the National Joint Council for Local Authority Fire and Rescue Services (NJC), aims to identify what impact, if any, firefighters can have on the delivery of emergency medical response and wider ...
Herbland, Anthony +8 more
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