Effectiveness of the community paramedicine at home (CP@home) program for frequent users of emergency medical services in Ontario: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the impact of the Community Paramedicine at Home (CP@home) program, a community paramedicine home-visit intervention, on reducing emergency medical services (EMS) calls among frequent users.

Design

A 6-month, open-label, pragmatic, randomized controlled trial with parallel intervention and control arms. An online automated platform (randomizer.org) was used to randomly allocate participants using a 1:1 allocation sequence.

Setting

In homes of frequent EMS users in four paramedic services and regions across Ontario, Canada.

Participants

Eligible participants were frequent callers (≥ 3 EMS calls within six months and ≥ 1 EMS call within the previous month), or had ≥ 1 lift assist call within the previous month, or were referred by paramedics

SUBMITTER: Agarwal G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11590269 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature