Clinical risk and collective competence in the hospital emergency department in the UK -
NC Boreham, CE Shea, K Mackway-Jones - Social Science & Medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
... E-mail address: nick.boreham@man.ac.uk (NC Bore ... ture of the root causes of risk in
the ED. ... using information obtained while transporting the patients to hospital ...

Community-acquired pneumonia: the annual cost to the National Health Service in the UK -
JF Guest, A Morris - European Respiratory Journal, 1997 - Eur Respiratory Soc
... conclusion, community-acquired pneumonia in the UK incurs a ... Pneumonia: A Prospective
Study of Patients Not Initially ... C Alvarez, and L Molinos Risk factors of ...

… of Stroke Referrals From Primary Care, Emergency Room Physicians, and Ambulance Staff Using the … -
J Harbison, O Hossain, D Jenkinson, J Davis, SJ … - Stroke, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
... stroke subtypes: a population-based study of incidence and risk factors ... Oxford, UK. ...
Signs With Face Arm Speech Test (FAST) in Acute Stroke Patients Stroke, June ...

[PDF] Emergency priority dispatch systems?a new era in the provision of ambulance services in the UK -
J Nicholl, P Coleman, G Parry, J Turner, S Dixon - Pre-hospital Immediate Care, 1999 - iespana.es
... systems operated by ambulance services in the UK. ... two ambulance serv- ices, the patient
report forms ... The estimated risk of serious underprioritisation was one ...

Intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients: minimising risk -
PJ Shirley, JF Bion - Intensive Care Medicine, 2004 - Springer
... One entire section of the UK?s competency-based ... are useful, but they run the risk
either of ... Taylor PA (1988) Transporting critically ill patients by ambulance ...

Is the normalisation of blood pressure in bleeding trauma patients harmful? -
I Roberts, P Evans, F Bunn, I Kwan, E Crowhurst - The Lancet, 2001 - Elsevier
... an increased (p=0?03) risk of death in patients attended by paramedics (relative
risk 1?26). The UK study was the largest of the four, and some subgroup ...

Access block causes emergency department overcrowding and ambulance diversion in Perth, Western … -
DM Fatovich, Y Nagree, P Sprivulis - British Medical Journal, 2005 - emj.bmj.com
... that their use is associated with significant risk of injury. ... The patient was extubated
and discharged on day 5 ... million air powered weapons in the UK and there ...

… the prehospital airway: a comparison of laryngeal mask insertion and endotracheal intubation by UK … -
CD Deakin, R Peters, P Tomlinson, M Cassidy - British Medical Journal, 2005 - emj.bmj.com
... insertion and endotracheal intubation in patients undergoing elective ... at endotracheal
intubation in the UK are for non ... where the cervical spine is not at risk. ...

Medical repatriation via fixed-wing air ambulance: a review of patient characteristics and adverse … -
AT Dewhurst, D Farrar, C Walker, P Mason, P Beven, … - Anaesthesia, 2001 - Blackwell Synergy
... Their findings were that high-risk secondary air ambulance transfers are safe provided
that ... In the UK, there are case reports of patients transferred by ...

… programme for on-site defibrillation by lay people in selected high risk areas: initial results -
CS Davies, MC Colquhoun, R Boyle, DA Chamberlain - British Medical Journal, 2005 - heart.bmj.com
... they serve different types of populations at risk. ... responder strategy from the UK,
but initial ... suggests that substantially fewer patients are resuscitated ...