Original contributionA review of prehospital care litigation in a large metropolitan EMS system
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Factors associated with EMS transport decisions for pediatric patients after motor vehicle collisions
2020, Traffic Injury PreventionParamedic Assessment of Older Adults After Falls, Including Community Care Referral Pathway: Cluster Randomized Trial
2017, Annals of Emergency MedicineCitation Excerpt :Emergency ambulances (999) are frequently called for older people who have fallen, composing 8% of emergency ambulance attendances in London, UK,9 with a similar proportion reported in urban emergency medical services in the United States.10 In the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia,11 nonconveyance rates are high for this group; for example, in London the figure is approximately 40%,9 despite the known safety and litigation risk.12 Clinical guidelines for preventing falls strongly advocate approaches based on multidimensional risk assessment and exercise programs, with environmental assessment and modification.13
Tort Claims and Adverse Events in Emergency Medical Services
2008, Annals of Emergency MedicineCitation Excerpt :Our findings suggest that EMS quality improvement efforts must encompass not just clinical but also operational aspects of care. Previous efforts describing tort claims against EMS are limited to small series involving single EMS agencies.37-39 One broader effort used a public jury verdict database that included only incidents proceeding to trial, thus underestimating the frequency of adverse events.40
Patient transport via private vehicle in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
2005, American Journal of Emergency MedicineOutcome study of minors after parental refusal of paramedic transport
2001, Prehospital Emergency Care
Presented at the University Association for Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1988.