Introduction Evolution of ambulance service response models has resulted in significant
numbers of patients not being conveyed to Emergency Departments. Prior research has …

Background The ambulance services are associated with emergency medicine,
traumatology and disaster medicine, which is also reflected in previous research. Caring …

Background Working as an ambulance nurse involves facing ethically problematic situations
with multi-dimensional suffering, requiring the ability to create a trustful relationship. This …

Background Breathlessness is a serious and distressing symptom and a common reason
why patients require prehospital care by ambulance clinicians. However, little is known …

Background As many as 25% of all Dutch ambulance emergency service assignments result
in non-conveyance of the patient to the hospital. Little is known about how patients and their …

Historically, the ambulance care has focused on acute transports and medical treatment,
although ambulance care has also been reported as complex, encompassing more than just …

Background There is an increasing need to assess the performance of emergency
ambulance services using measures other than the time taken for an ambulance to arrive on …

Objective: To describe patient satisfaction with pre-hospital emergency knowledge and
determine if patients and professionals share a common vision on the satisfaction predictors …

Background The ambulance service provides emergency care to meet the patient's medical
and nursing needs. Based on professional nursing values, this should be done within a …

Background: Centralising acute stroke services is an example of major system change
(MSC).'Hub and spoke'systems, consisting of a reduced number of services providing acute …