A patient-safety and professional perspective on non-conveyance in ambulance care: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This systematic review aimed to describe non-conveyance in ambulance care from patient-safety and ambulance professional perspectives. The review specifically focussed at describing (1) ambulance non-conveyance rates, (2) characteristics of non-conveyed patients, (3) follow-up care after non-conveyance, (4) existing guidelines or protocols, and (5) influencing factors during the non-conveyance decision making process.

Methods

We systematically searched MEDLINE, PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, and reference lists of included articles, in June 2016. We included all types of peer-reviewed designs on the five topics. Couples of two independent reviewers performed the selection process, the quality assessment, and data extraction.

Results

We included 67 studies with low

SUBMITTER: Ebben RHA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5513207 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature