Updated 12/21/2022 with updated URL. JEMS annually reports that close to half of America's largest cities are served by private ambulance services and the American Ambulance Association predicts that 75% of the U.S. population is served by private companies. In many of these communities, competitive RFP processes...
Early Warning Scores (EWS) have been used for many years in-hospital to identify deteriorating patients and rapidly intervene. Ambulance services in Scotland and Qatar have been using an EWS in the prehospital setting. Scotland Ambulance Service uses it as a tool to identify deteriorating patients...
© 2014 MedicHealth.com This past week a podcast by EMS Chief Chris Cebollero and critical care paramedic Kelly Grayson included a discussion on whether or not “response time goals really matter.” The link to the podcast was well distributed in social media. This isn’t the first...
© 2014 MedicHealth.com In recent years, focus on medic safety has received increasing attention. Maguire et al. reported in 2002 that EMS providers had a rate of occupational fatalities due to transportation incidents of 9.6 per 100,000; a third higher than firefighters (6.3), twice that of police (4.5),...
A recent article on Enhancing Prehospital Emergency Care by Institute for Healthcare Improvement Vice President Kedar Mate, MD and I (David M. Williams, Ph.D.) was published in the American College of Healthcare Executive's Healthcare Executive Magazine. You can access a free PDF copy of the article...
The Summer edition of Ambulance Today, Europe's leading ambulance magazine, featured an article authored by David M. Williams, Ph.D. The piece focused on efforts in the U.S.A. to use paramedics to provide alternative services in the out-of-hospital environment frequently referred to as Community Paramedicine of...
The Winter edition of Ambulance Today, Europe's leading ambulance magazine, featured an article authored by David M. Williams, Ph.D. The piece focused on efforts in the U.S.A. and U.K. to develop a Global Trigger Tool to measure patient harm in ambulance services based on the...
Is Austin’s EMS System Broken? That was the question that resulted in a feature article for the September issue of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS) authored by me (DMWAustin’s own David M. Williams, Ph.D.). JEMS requested the paper after EMS industry leaders noted numerous...