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Understanding quality systems in the South African prehospital emergency medical services: a multiple exploratory case study

BMJ Open Quality, 2020
Introduction In South Africa (SA), prehospital emergency care is delivered by emergency medical services (EMS) across the country. Within these services, quality systems are in their infancy, and issues regarding transparency, reliability and contextual ...
Maaret Castrén, Veronica Lindström, Peter Cameron, Ian Howard   +3 more
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Requirement Analysis and Implementation of Smart Emergency Medical Services

IEEE Access, 2018
Emergency medical service (EMS) occurs in a high-pressure and error-prone environment, where paramedics must provide prompt decisions in care while recording information with limited time, incomplete data, restricted resources, and competing priorities ...
Eunjeong Park, Ji Hoon Kim, Hyo Suk Nam, Hyuk-Jae Chang   +3 more
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Oslo government district bombing and Utøya island shooting July 22, 2011: The immediate prehospital emergency medical service response

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2012
Background On July 22, 2011, a single perpetrator killed 77 people in a car bomb attack and a shooting spree incident in Norway. This article describes the emergency medical service (EMS) response elicited by the two incidents.
Sollid Stephen JM, Rimstad Rune, Rehn Marius, Nakstad Anders R, Tomlinson Ann-Elin, Strand Terje, Heimdal Hans, Nilsen Jan, Sandberg Mårten   +8 more
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Managing Local Health System Interdependencies: Referral and Outreach Systems for Maternal and Newborn Health in Three South African Districts

Systems, 2023
In complex health systems, referral and outreach systems (ROS) are formal strategies for connecting and managing interdependencies between facilities in service delivery pathways.
Helen Schneider, Solange Mianda, Willem Odendaal, Terusha Chetty   +3 more
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Emergency physician’s dispatch by a paramedic-staffed emergency medical communication centre: sensitivity, specificity and search for a reference standard

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background Some emergency medical systems (EMS) use a dispatch centre where nurses or paramedics assess emergency calls and dispatch ambulances. Paramedics may also provide the first tier of care “in the field”, with the second tier being an Emergency ...
V. N. Chappuis, Hélène Deham, P. Cottet, B. Gartner, F. Sarasin, M. Niquille, L. Suppan, Robert Larribau   +7 more
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Development of Hybrid ASR Systems for Low Resource Medical Domain Conversational Telephone Speech [PDF]

arXiv.org, 2022
Language barriers present a great challenge in our increasingly connected and global world. Especially within the medical domain, e.g. hospital or emergency room, communication difficulties and delays may lead to malpractice and non-optimal patient care.
Christoph Luscher, Mohammad Zeineldeen, Zijian Yang, Peter Vieting, Khai Le-Duc, Weiyue Wang, R. Schluter, H. Ney   +7 more
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Application of Telemedicine System to Prehospital Medical Control [PDF]

Healthcare Informatics Research, 2015
ObjectivesAlthough ambulance-based telemedicine has been reported to be safe and feasible, its clinical usefulness has not been well documented, and different prehospital management systems would yield different results.
Suck Ju Cho, In Ho Kwon, Jinwoo Jeong
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Sustaining a New Model of Acute Stroke Care: A Mixed-Method Process Evaluation of the Melbourne Mobile Stroke Unit [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023
Background  Internationally, Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU) ambulances have changed pre-hospital acute stroke care delivery. MSU clinical and cost-effectiveness studies are emerging, but little is known about important factors for achieving sustainability of ...
Kathleen L. Bagot, Tara Purvis, Shaun Hancock, Henry Zhao, Skye Coote, Damien Easton, Bruce CV Campbell, Stephen M. Davis, Geoff A. Donnan, Shane Foster, Francesca Langenberg, Karen Smith, Michael Stephenson, Stephen Bernard, Sharon McGowan, Bernard Yan, Peter Mitchell, Sandy Middleton, Dominique A. Cadilhac   +18 more
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A feasibility study for the provision of electronic healthcare tools and services in areas of Greece, Cyprus and Italy [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Through this paper, we present the initial steps for the creation of an integrated platform for the provision of a series of eHealth tools and services to both citizens and travelers in isolated areas of thesoutheast Mediterranean, and on ...
Androulidakis, Aggelos, Bracale, Umberto, Konnis, Georgios, Koutsouris, Dimitrios, Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos, Mougiakakou, Stavroula G., Papadopoulos, Homer, Pattichis, Constantinos S., Pecchia, Leandro, Perakis, Kostas, Tranfaglia, Riccardo   +10 more
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Foggy clouds and cloudy fogs: a real need for coordinated management of fog-to-cloud computing systems [PDF]

, 2016
The recent advances in cloud services technology are fueling a plethora of information technology innovation, including networking, storage, and computing.
Jukan, Admela, Marín Tordera, Eva, Masip Bruin, Xavier, Ren, Guang-Jie, Tashakor, Ghazal   +4 more
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