ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to identify the types of community paramedicine programs
and the training for each. MethodsA systematic review of MEDLINE, Embase, grey literature …

BACKGROUND: Emergency calls are frequently made to ambulance services for older
people who have fallen, but ambulance crews often leave patients at the scene without any …

With the current expansion of data linkage research, the challenge is to find the balance
between preserving the privacy of person-level data whilst making these data accessible for …

Background The decision over whether to convey after emergency ambulance attendance
plays a vital role in preventing avoidable admissions to a hospital's emergency department …

Background Many funding bodies require researchers to actively involve service users in
research to improve relevance, accountability and quality. Current guidance to researchers …

OBJECTIVE: To identify factors affecting variation in avoidable emergency admissions that
are not usually identified in statistical regression. METHODS: As part of an ethnographic …

Health outcomes after out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are extremely poor, with only 7–
9% of patients in the United Kingdom (UK) surviving to hospital discharge. Currently …

Background We sought to understand the main ethical considerations when conducting
clinical trials in the prehospital ambulance based setting. Methods A systematic review of the …

Purpose To explore paramedics' experiences and perspectives about attending and
managing older adults who had fallen. Procedures This qualitative, exploratory study used a …

Background Injury surveillance has been established since the 1990s, but is still largely
based upon single-source data from sentinel sites. The growth of electronic health records …