Effectiveness of paramedic practitioners in attending 999 calls from elderly people in the community: cluster randomised controlled trial

Mason, Suzanne; Knowles, Emma; Colwell, Brigitte; Dixon, Simon; Wardrope, Jim; Gorringe, Robert; Snooks, Helen; Perrin, Julie; Nicholl, Jon

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Abstract

Objective To evaluate the benefits of paramedic practitioners assessing and, when possible, treating older people in the community after minor injury or illness. Paramedic practitioners have been trained with extended skills to assess, treat, and discharge older patients with minor acute conditions in the community. https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/335/7626/919.full.pdf 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 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39343.649097.55

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