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Conveyance and non-conveyance to the emergency department after self-harm: Prevalence and ambulance service staff perspectives. [PDF]

, 2017
Relatively little is known about people who self-harm and are not conveyed to the emergency department, or the experiences of ambulance service staff in working with people who self-harm and the conveyance decisions that they make.
Jenkins, Emily Jayne
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2 Ambulance non-conveyance time [PDF]

Abstracts, 2019
Background The aim was to describe time consumption when patients are non-conveyed by the ambulance service. Ambulance assignments have increased over time worldwide and 16%–31% of the care seekers encountered by the ambulance service have been assessed as not being in need of its services.
F Malm, E Höglund, A Elfström, E Ohlsson-Nevo   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Changing role of EMS –analyses of non-conveyed and conveyed patients in Finland

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2020
Background Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Emergency Departments (ED) have seen increasing attendance rates in the last decades. Currently, EMS are increasingly assessing and treating patients without the need to convey patients to health care ...
Jani Paulin, Jouni Kurola, Sanna Salanterä, Hans Moen, Nischal Guragain, Mari Koivisto, Niina Käyhkö, Venla Aaltonen, Timo Iirola   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A retrospective comparison between non-conveyed and conveyed patients in ambulance care

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2018
Background Not all patients where an ambulance is dispatched are conveyed to an emergency department. Although non-conveyance is a substantial part of ambulance care, there is limited insight in the non-conveyance patient population. Therefore, the study
Lilian C. M. Vloet, Arjan de Kreek, Emmelieke M. C. van der Linden, Jori J. A. van Spijk, Vince A. H. Theunissen, Maud van Wanrooij, Pierre M. van Grunsven, Remco H. A. Ebben   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Non-conveyance and patient safety in prehospital emergency care [PDF]

, 2022
Emergency medical services (EMS) and emergency departments (EDs) have reported increased attendance rates and numbers of patients without urgent need for treatment.
Paulin, Jani
openaire   +3 more sources

Assessing non-conveyed patients in the ambulance service: a phenomenological interview study with Swedish ambulance clinicians

BMJ Open, 2019
Objectives To combat overcrowding in emergency departments, ambulance clinicians (ACs) are being encouraged to make on-site assessments regarding patients’ need for conveyance to hospital, and this is creating new and challenging demands for ACs.
Veronica Lindström, Jakob Lederman, Caroline Löfvenmark, Therese Djärv, Carina Elmqvist   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient factors associated with conveyance decision-making by Emergency Medical Services professionals in patients with a syncope: a cross-sectional factorial survey design

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background The clinical decision-making of non-conveyance is perceived as complex and difficult by emergency medical services (EMS) professionals. Patients with a transient loss of consciousness (TLOC) based on syncope constitute a significant part of ...
B. Bastiaan A. Ort, Lucia G. uit het Broek, Harm de Bruin, Reinier P. Akkermans, Ben Goosselink, Hester Vermeulen, Remco H.A. Ebben, Lilian C.M. Vloet, Sivera A.A. Berben   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient experience of non-conveyance following emergency ambulance service response: A scoping review of the literature

Australasian Emergency Care, 2021
Evolution of ambulance service response models has resulted in significant numbers of patients not being conveyed to Emergency Departments. Prior research has attempted to measure patient-safety aspects of non- conveyance with inconclusive results.
Robbie King, Florin Oprescu, Bill Lord, Belinda Flanagan   +3 more
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The experience of non-conveyance following emergency medical service triage from the perspective of patients and their relatives: A qualitative study [PDF]

International Emergency Nursing, 2021
As many as 25% of all Dutch ambulance emergency service assignments result in non-conveyance of the patient to the hospital. Little is known about how patients and their relatives experience being left at home by an ambulance nurse after an acute request for medical help.To gain insight into the experience of patients and their relatives with a high ...
Doorn, S.C. van, Verhalle, Ruud C., Ebben, R.H.A., Frost, Donna M., Vloet, L.C.M., Brouwer, C.P. de   +5 more
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Outcomes in patients not conveyed by emergency medical services (EMS): a one-year prospective study

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2022
Background The decision to not convey patients has become common in emergency medical services worldwide. A substantial proportion (12–51%) of the patients seen by emergency medical services are not conveyed by those services.
Erik Höglund, Agneta Schröder, Magnus Andersson-Hagiwara, Margareta Möller, Emma Ohlsson-Nevo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source