Background. Paramedics are an important health human resource and are uniquely mobile
in most communities across Canada. In the last dozen years, challenges in the delivery of …

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 …

Health and care services have failed to keep up with this dramatic demographic shift. The
NHS has designed hospital medical specialties around single organ diseases. Primary care …

Modified Poisson regression, which combines a log Poisson regression model with robust
variance estimation, is a useful alternative to log binomial regression for estimating relative …

Background Emergency Departments (EDs) are playing an increasingly important role in the
care of older adults. Characterizing ED usage will facilitate the planning for care delivery …

Globally, health systems are faced with the difficult challenge of how to get the best results
with the often limited number of health workers available to them. Exacerbating this …

A complete guide to understanding cluster randomised trials Written by two researchers with
extensive experience in the field, this book presents a complete guide to the design …

Community paramedic roles are expanding internationally, and no review of the literature
could be found to guide services in the formation of community paramedicine programmes …

Models addressing urgent clinical needs for older adults with multiple advanced chronic
conditions are lacking. This observational study describes a Community Paramedicine (CP) …

Background In England in 2015/16, ambulance services responded to nearly 11 million
calls. Ambulance Quality Indicators show that half of the patients receiving a response by …