The Economic Impact of Community Paramedics Within Emergency Medical Services: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Globally, emergency medical services (EMSs) report that their demand is dominated by non-emergency (such as urgent and primary care) requests. Appropriately managing these is a major challenge for EMSs, with one mechanism employed being specialist community paramedics. This review guides policy by evaluating the economic impact of specialist community paramedic models from a healthcare system perspective.

Methods

A multidisciplinary team (health economics, emergency care, paramedicine, nursing) was formed, and a protocol registered on PROSPERO (CRD42023397840) and published open access. Eligible studies included experimental and analytical observational study designs of economic evaluation outcomes of patients requesting EMSs via an emergency telepho

SUBMITTER: Wilkinson-Stokes M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11339145 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature