The Zealand Region in Denmark has around 832 500 inhabitants (Statistics Denmark, 2017). Even though healthcare is a public responsibility, the politicians in the Region have hired the private company...
Survival from OHCA is measured using internationally agreed criteria, referred to as the Utstein Reference Standard (Cummins et al, 1991), and such a standardised reporting system allows comparisons...
Advantages of clinical case reports.
Paramedics are clearly well suited for employment in the ED. The role offers a novel way to improve patient care in a system that has been hamstrung by tradition, challenging the belief that emergency...
‘The sum of all interactions, shaped by an organization's culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.’ .
Job burnout has variously been described as having components of ‘emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and reduced personal accomplishment’ (Maslach et al, 2001), or ‘a state of physical,...
Cardiac arrest exhibits wide variations in incidence, response, and outcome across regions as a result of its multifactorial nature (Nichol et al, 2008; Kleinman et al, 2018). Several factors that may...
The case study comparisons showed variation in practices and results similar to those noted in other comparisons in trade magazines and peer-reviewed journal articles (Nichol et al, 2008; Ward, 2013)....
The EMS profession has typically relied on a rigid and hierarchical structure that tightly controls employees through rewards and punishment, and this has resulted in high turnover rates and...
‘Community paramedicine is a model of care whereby paramedics apply their training and skills in “non-traditional” community-based environments, often outside the usual emergency response and...
Two focus groups were undertaken in this pilot study. Participant responses underwent thematic analysis (Bender and Ewbank, 1994) by three independent investigators with experience in qualitative...
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