How Actual Practice of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Aligns with the Recommended National Scope of Practice in Rural Versus Urban Areas of the U.S.
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Description
Results of a study examining the extent to which EMS professionals perform skills that correspond to their credential levels, and determining whether there are variations in adherence to guidelines between agencies serving rural or urban populations and agencies with unpaid versus paid staffing models. Examines credentials for emergency medical responders, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), advanced EMTs, and paramedics, and uses data from EMS encounters in 2018 from 1,056 EMS agencies nationally. Features statistics on various procedures and predictors of performing a procedure within the scope of practice model, with breakdowns by 4 levels of population density.
Author(s)
Davis G. Patterson, Benjamin A. Stubbs, Nikiah G. Nudell
Date
02/2022
Type
Document
Organization
UW Center for Health Workforce Studies
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Emergency medical services · Emergency medical technicians and paramedics · Rural-urban differences · Scope of practice · Statistics and data