Engaging emergency medical services to improve postacute management of behavioural health emergency calls: a protocol of a scoping literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The public health crisis of escalating mental health, behavioural and substance-related emergencies has revealed the need to approach these complex events from a health perspective, rather than the traditional criminal justice standpoint. Despite law enforcement officers often being the first responders to emergency calls concerning self or bystander harm, they are not optimally equipped to manage these crises holistically or to connect affected individuals to necessary medical treatment and social support. Paramedics and other emergency medical services (EMS) providers are well positioned to deliver comprehensive medicosocial care during and in the immediate aftermath of these emergencies, moving beyond their traditional role in emergency evaluation, stabilisation and

SUBMITTER: Ding ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10016281 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature