Barriers and requirements in the off-line emergency medical protocols implementation in Iranian Pre-hospital system: A qualitative study

• Main Authors: Meysam Safi-Keykaleh (Author), Davoud Khorasani-Zavareh (Author), Zohreh Ghomian (Author), Saeideh Nateghinia (Author), Hamid Safarpour (Author), Reza Mohammadi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: To avoid making decisions based on the unproven opinions of emergency medical technicians (EMTs), many emergency medical service (EMS) systems rely on emergency medical protocols. As protocol-based on-scene decision-making is influenced by many challenges, identifying these challenges ca...