Ambulance over-conveyance to the emergency department: a large data analysis of ambulance journeys
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Keyword
Emergency Medical ServicesEmergency Department
Data Analysis
Pre-hospital
Transportation of Patients
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BMJ Open
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Over-conveyance by the ambulance service is a compounding factor of emergency department (ED) crowding. Previous solutions have focused on specific patient groups which have a limited impact when compared to the whole urgent and emergency care system. This study aims to analyse non-urgent conveyances by the ambulance service that could be suitable for discharge on-scene. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/Suppl_1/A22.3. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-EMS.59ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1136/bmjopen-2018-EMS.59
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