Examining consensus for a standardised patient assessment in community paramedicine home visits: a RAND/UCLA-modified Delphi Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Community paramedicine programme are often designed to address repeated and non-urgent use of paramedic services by providing patients with alternatives to the traditional 'treat and transport' ambulance model of care. We sought to investigate the level of consensus that could be found by a panel of experts regarding appropriate health, social and environmental domains that should be assessed in community paramedicine home visit programme.

Design

We applied the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method in a modified Delphi method to investigate the level of consensus on assessment domains for use in community paramedicine home visit programme.

Setting and participants

We included a multi-national panel of 17 experts on community paramedicine and in-home assessment fr

SUBMITTER: Leyenaar MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6797257 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature