service evaluation

Disaster preparedness of health professionals at mass gatherings: a scoping review

Scoping reviews, as their name implies, are used to determine how much progress has been made in a particular area of research. In order to explore the question ‘What is known about the preparedness...

Point-of-care blood testing with secondary care decision support for frail patients

This pilot study evaluated a prototype service, which included immediate telephone decision support from senior physicians in paramedic assessments of frail patients in supportive care environments...

Organisational structural predictors of ambulance crashes: an analysis

This study's results add to the collective understanding of factors associated with ambulance crashes, which may inform future action to intervene and create a safer environment of care for EMS...

Mental health assessment and triage in an ambulance clinical contact centre

This service evaluation sought to uncover paramedic and nurse perceptions of mental health 999 calls, and to understand how they are triaged by the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust's (WAST) clinical...

Pre-hospital lactate testing in the recognition and management of sepsis and septic shock

A small ambulance station within South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWAST) was purposively selected to participate in the study based on its size, location, usual patient numbers...

The new Red 1 ambulance response time definition: evaluating clinical impact

The aim of the evaluation was to assess whether the new Red 1 definition had an impact on the patients that receive a Red 1 response..

A review of the challenges and solutions during paramedic endotracheal intubation

‘…paramedics within King County achieved ETI success rates comparable with other highperforming EMS systems and emergency physicians’.