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Hospital readmission risk prediction based on claims data available at admission: a pilot study in Switzerland

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, Yanni Lei, Fangchao Liu, Shiyu Shao, Jue Liu, Dongni Nie, Nannan Yang   +6 more
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Patient characteristics and dispatch responses of urinary tract infections in a prehospital setting in Copenhagen, Denmark: a retrospective cohort study

BMC Primary Care, 2022
Background Urinary tract infection (UTI) is particularly common in young women and the elderly. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in Copenhagen, Denmark can be reached by calling either of two dedicated telephone lines: 1–1-2 in case of an emergency ...
Jeske Verhoeven, Helle Collatz Christensen, Stig Nikolaj Blomberg, Simone Böbel, Mirjam Scholz, Thomas Krafft   +5 more
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Benchmarking online dispatch algorithms for Emergency Medical Services [PDF]

European Journal of Operational Research, 2017
Providers of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) face the online ambulance dispatch problem, in which they decide which ambulance to send to an incoming incident. Their objective is to minimize the fraction of arrivals later than a target time. Today, the gap between existing solutions and the optimum is unknown, and we provide a bound for this gap ...
Pieter L. van den Berg, Caroline Jagtenberg, Rob van der Mei   +2 more
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Population ageing and injurious falls among one million elderly people who used emergency medical services from 2010 to 2017 in Beijing, China: a longitudinal observational study

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, Yanni Lei, Fangchao Liu, Shiyu Shao, Jue Liu, Dongni Nie, Nannan Yang   +6 more
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Stress and salivary cortisol in emergency medical dispatchers: A randomized shifts control trial.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Stress at work is a public health concern. Phone operators in emergency medical dispatch centers are particularly at risk. We aimed to demonstrate that the most stressful time for emergency medical dispatchers is the shift when they receive emergency ...
Sarah Bedini, François Braun, Laurence Weibel, Michel Aussedat, Bruno Pereira, Frédéric Dutheil   +5 more
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Barnes Hospital Bulletin [PDF]

, 1985
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/bjc_barnes_bulletin/1233/thumbnail ...

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Computer assisted assessment and advice for "non-serious" 999 ambulance service callers : the potential impact on ambulance despatch [PDF]

, 2003
Objective: To investigate the potential impact for ambulance services of telephone assessment and triage for callers who present with non-serious problems (Category C calls) as classified by ambulance service call takers.
Crouch, R., Dale, Jeremy, Foster, T., George, S., Glucksman, E., Hartley-Sharpe, C., Higgins, J., Hooper, R., Snooks, Helen, Williams, S.   +9 more
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Ambulance service operational improvement [PDF]

, 2013
This document is the accepted manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in International Paramedic Practice copyright © MA Healthcare, after peer review and technical editing by the Publisher.
Alinier, Guillaume, Hutton, David
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Convulsive Patients Transported by a Physician-staffed Helicopter in Japan Had Better Outcomes in the Keyword-triggered Dispatch Compared to Postcontact Emergency Medical Technician-triggered Dispatch

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock
Introduction: We retrospectively analyzed convulsive patient outcomes transported by a physician-staffed Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (doctor helicopter [DH]) using the keyword-triggered dispatch with data from the Japan DH Registry System (JDRS).
Kenji Kawai, Hiroki Nagasawa, Tomohisa Nomura, Manabu Sugita, Youichi Yanagawa   +4 more
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Predictors of recognition of out of hospital cardiac arrest by emergency medical services call handlers in England: a mixed methods diagnostic accuracy study

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background The aim of this study was to identify key indicator symptoms and patient factors associated with correct out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) dispatch allocation.
Caroline L. Watkins, Stephanie P. Jones, Margaret A. Hurley, Valerio Benedetto, Christopher I. Price, Christopher J. Sutton, Tom Quinn, Munirah Bangee, Brigit Chesworth, Colette Miller, Dawn Doran, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Josephine M. E. Gibson   +12 more
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