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Project
Dec 19, 2024
To address physical and verbal abuse of ambulance staff, RAND Europe evaluated a pilot of body worn cameras (BWCs) on ambulance staff in England.
Research
May 1, 2024
The goals of this study were to understand how emergency department clinicians decided to implement innovations and to describe the facilitators and challenges they faced during implementation.
Jul 20, 2022
The Enhancing Prehospital Outcomes for Cardiac Arrest study sought to identify best practices to address out-of-hospital cardiac arrest events. RAND researchers developed 49 strategies covering all levels of prehospital response.
Sep 26, 2017
Working in partnership, emergency medicine and primary care can address rural populations' most pressing social and medical needs.
May 18, 2015
Palpitations are a common emergency department (ED) complaint, yet relatively little research exists on this topic from an emergency care perspective.
Apr 7, 2015
A substantial proportion of advanced imaging studies ordered by emergency physicians may be medically unnecessary.
Oct 1, 2014
Many believe that fear of malpractice lawsuits drives physicians to order otherwise unnecessary care and that legal reforms could reduce such wasteful spending.
Jan 1, 2014
The primary objective of this study was to determine how EMS organizations that are piloting patient-centered treatment and transport protocols are approaching the challenges of implementation, reimbursement, and quality assurance.
Dec 1, 2013
If Medicare had the flexibility to reimburse EMS for managing selected 911 calls in ways other than transport to an ED, we estimate that the federal government could save $283–$560 million or more per year, while improving the continuity of patient care.
Emergency care must become more integrated, regionalized, prevention oriented, and innovative.
Nov 1, 2013
Efforts to close the primary care workforce gap typically employ one of three basic strategies: train more primary care physicians; boost the supply of nurse practitioners or physician assistants, or both; or use community health workers to extend the reach of primary care physicians.
