Emergency medical service

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...

A cross-sectional study of child injury ambulance call-out characteristics and their utility in surveillance

In 2016–2017, there were 16 285 injury-related ambulance call-outs to 0–14 year-olds in the north west of England (20.6% of all call-outs to 0–14 year-olds). The majority were unintentional injuries...

Secondary traumatic stress and resilience among EMS

The Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) assesses the ability to recover from stressful situations. The BRS is a validated self-report 6-item scale rating one of the highest levels of quality for measuring...

Assessment and management of chronic pain in adults: implications for paramedics

The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such...

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