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Prehospital nursing students' experiences of patient safety culture in emergency medical services : A qualitative study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To describe prehospital nursing students' experiences of patient safety culture in emergency medical services during their internship.
Veronica Lindström   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Screening of community-dwelling older patients by the emergency medical services : An observational retrospective registry study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Background: Inadequate nutrition, falls, and cognitive impairment are common problems among acutely ill older people and are associated with complicated and prolonged health problems and mortality.
Saario, Eeva L.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Differences between the dispatch priority assessments of emergency medical dispatchers and emergency medical services: a prospective register-based study in Finland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Background: Responsive and efficient emergency medical services (EMS) require accurate telephone triage. In Finland, such services are provided by Emergency Response Centre Agency (ERC Agency).
Salminen, Tomi   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Rendezvous between ambulances and prehospital physicians in the Capital Region of Denmark: a descriptive study

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2022
Background In a two-tier Emergency Medical Services response system with ambulances and physician-staffed rapid response vehicles, both units are ideally dispatched simultaneously when a physician is needed.
Roselil Oelrich   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Community Socioeconomic Characteristics on Emergency Medical Service Delays in Responding to Fatal Vehicle Crashes

open access: yesAJPM Focus, 2023
Introduction: This study aimed to determine the impact of community socioeconomic status on emergency medical services’ response time for fatal vehicle crashes.
Sachi Verma, B.Tech-M.Tech, CPH, MPH   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Emergency Medical Service Microbiome [PDF]

open access: yesApplied and Environmental Microbiology, 2018
ABSTRACT Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel are an integral component of the health care framework and function to transport patients from various locations to and between care facilities. In addition to physical injury, EMS personnel are expected to be at high risk to acquire and transmit health care-associated ...
Andrew J, Hudson   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Connect dispatch centers for call handling improves performance

open access: yesScandinavian 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
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of emergency medical services in Saudi Arabia

open access: yes, 2022
: Aim: the aim of this study was to supply an summary of the evolution of emergency medical services (EMS) in Saudi Arabia to explain its history, organizational service providers, governance, EMS statistics and also the academic development of the ...
Nasser Bunayyan AlDawsari   +1 more
core   +1 more source

The Danish prehospital emergency healthcare system and research possibilities

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2019
The emergency medical healthcare system outside hospital varies greatly across the globe - even within the western world. Within the last ten years, the demand for emergency medical service systems has increased, and the Danish emergency medical service ...
Tim Alex Lindskou   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association of Real‐Time Feedback and Cardiopulmonary‐Resuscitation Quality Delivered by Ambulance Personnel for Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023
Background High‐quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is associated with improved survival from out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest and includes chest compression depth, chest compression rate, and chest compression fraction within international ...
Rasmus Meyer Lyngby   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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