Research

Local socioeconomic status and paramedic students' academic performance

The boxplots in Figure 3 show the distribution of entrance exam scores by parent educational level. The y-axis measures the EE score, while the x-axis measures the parent education level..

Physiological and psychological components of paramedic wellbeing

There are philosophical and scientific approaches that led to the development of many modern wellbeing models. Diener's (1984) ‘Tripartite model of subjective wellbeing’ was fundamental in the...

Improving motivation for self-directed training in Danish EMS personnel

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 in Seattle: the Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit

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...

A description of a unique paramedic role in a Canadian emergency department

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...

Global patient experience of paramedic practice

‘The sum of all interactions, shaped by an organization's culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.’ .

Burnout in Australian paramedics

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,...

Incidence, response, and outcomes of cardiac arrest in Portland, Oregon

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...

Obstacles to emergency medical services system design and operational features

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 profile of an emergency medical services leader: a multi-national qualitative study

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 paramedics: a scoping review of their emergence and potential impact

‘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...