Search for dissertations about: "emergency medical service 2020"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words emergency medical service 2020.

  2. 1. Saving lives during major underground mining incidents : becoming prepared for a collaborative response

    Author : Sofia Karlsson; Magnus Hultin; Britt-Inger Saveman; Lina Gyllencreutz; Erna Danielsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Major incidents; preparedness; collaboration; underground mine fires; emergency medical service; rescue service; mining company; full-scale exercises; collaboration project;

    Abstract : Background: Major incidents in underground mines are uncommon, but they can have severe consequences. In Sweden, the municipal rescue service and the regional emergency medical service (EMS) are dispatched to mining incidents, and together with the privately owned/state owned mineral and metalliferous mining company they perform a rescue operation. READ MORE

  4. 2. Clinical quality and performance measurement in the prehospital emergency medical services in the low-to-middle-income setting : developing clinical quality and performance indicators as a measure of care in South Africa

    Author : Ian Howard; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : BACKGROUND: Measuring quality and safety in any healthcare setting however is highly contextual, and depends on the manner in which quality is defined or viewed within that setting. It is this contextual nature that has provoked significant debate and hindered efforts at developing formal standards or criteria for measuring quality and safety in healthcare, regardless of setting. READ MORE

  5. 3. Non-conveyed patients : a thesis on epidemiology, and patients' and ambulance clinicians' experiences

    Author : Jakob Lederman; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : BACKGROUND: As a consequence of the increased overall number of ambulance assignments in combination with an increase in patients assessed as having non-urgent complaints, new demands are being placed on the ambulance service and the ambulance clinicians (ACs) regarding patient assessments and decisions. Alternative care pathways – excluding emergency departments (EDs) – such as non-conveyance, have increased over the last decade. READ MORE