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The helicopter as a caring context: Experiences of people suffering trauma.
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For trauma patients to be taken seriously and treated as 'worst cases' enables them to trust their caregivers and 'hand themselves over' to their care.About:
This article is published in International Emergency Nursing.The article was published on 2017-05-01. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Emergency medical services & Context (language use).read more
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Being taken seriously. Person-centredness and person-centred climate as experienced by patients and significant others when the patient is assessed as non-urgent by the Swedish Ambulance Service
TL;DR: It is possible to achieve a person-centred climate within in the Ambulance Service irrespective of time and location, due to the fact that person-Centredness mainly concerns taking patients seriously and providing a moment of de-burdening for significant others.
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Patient experiences of initial trauma care.
TL;DR: The initial trauma care may be improved if the trauma team members keep the patient's physical and emotional wellbeing in focus and maintain an informative dialogue with the patient during the whole process.
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Experiences of suffering multiple trauma: A qualitative study.
TL;DR: The theme showed that those who suffered multiple trauma did not know what to expect of their recovery and they expressed experiencing a lack of understanding and guidance from healthcare professionals.
Patient and organisational perspectives of initial trauma care
TL;DR: Findings from the two studies showed that there is room for improvements in in-hospital triage as well as in the psycho-social treatment of trauma patients at the trauma centre.
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In safe hands: Patients’ experiences of intrahospital transport during intensive care
TL;DR: Patients' experience could be improved by being provided with accurate and timely information and preparedness for transport-related events, and patients perceived intrahospital transports as an acceptable and safe process.
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Enhancing the quality and credibility of qualitative analysis.
TL;DR: This overview examines ways of enhancing the quality and credibility of qualitative analysis by dealing with three distinct but related inquiry concerns: rigorous techniques and methods for gathering and analyzing qualitative data; the credibility, competence, and perceived trustworthiness of the qualitative researcher; and the philosophical beliefs of evaluation users about such paradigm-based preferences.
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Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods: Integrating Theory and Practice
TL;DR: In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the qualitative research evaluation methods integrating theory and practice book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books as discussed by the authors.
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When is the helicopter faster? A comparison of helicopter and ground ambulance transport times.
TL;DR: Ground ambulance transport provided the shortest 911-hospital arrival interval at distances less than 10 miles from the hospital, and simultaneously dispatched air transport was faster than ground at distances greater than 45 miles.
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International EMS Systems: the Nordic countries
Audun Langhelle,Hans Morten Lossius,Tom Silfvast,Hjalti Már Björnsson,F. K. Lippert,Anders Ersson,Eldar Søreide +6 more
TL;DR: Emergency medicine service (EMS) systems in the five Nordic countries have more similarities than differences, but there is a need for more fully trained specialists in EM and a nation wide physician staffed helicopter EMS (HEMS) cover.
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Helicopter scene transport of trauma patients with nonlife-threatening injuries: a meta-analysis.
TL;DR: The majority of trauma patients transported from the scene by helicopter have nonlife-threatening injuries, and efforts to more accurately identify those patients who would benefit most from helicopter transport from the accident scene to the trauma center are needed to reduce helicopter overutilization.