The out-of-hospital setting is unique to health care and presents many challenges to
providing safe, high-quality medical care in emergency situations. The challenges of the …

Abstract Background In Finland, calls for emergency medical services are prioritized by
educated non-medical personnel into four categories—from A (highest risk) to D (lowest risk) …

Introduction: Canada's northern territories are characterized by small, scattered populations
separated by long distances. A major challenge to healthcare delivery is the reliance on …

Background In countries where a single public emergency telephone number is not in
operation, different emergency telephone numbers corresponding to multiple dispatch …

Background Emergency medical services are an important part of trauma care, but data
comparing urban and rural areas is needed. We compared 30-day mortality and length of …

Background Due to unwanted delays and suboptimal resource control of helicopter
emergency medical services (HEMS), regional HEMS coordinators have recently been …

During the last few decades, the ambulance services in Scandinavia have been transformed
from merely the supine transport of patients to mobile units of highly skilled personnel …

Background The increasing usage of emergency medical services (EMS) missions is a
challenge in modern practice. This study was designed to examine the association of the …

Variation in access to healthcare services is one of the key indicators of equity and equality
in public healthcare services. Comparing access to care reliability between areas with …

A main role of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems is to efficiently allocate and
dispatch emergency medical resources to patients. Efficiency of EMS systems is subject to …