Developing new ways of measuring the quality and impact of ambulance service care: the PhOEBE mixed-methods research programme

• Main Authors: Janette Turner (Author), A Niroshan Siriwardena (Author), Joanne Coster (Author), Richard Jacques (Author), Andy Irving (Author), Annabel Crum (Author), Helen Bell Gorrod (Author), Jon Nicholl (Author), Viet-Hai Phung (Author), Fiona Togher (Author), Richard Wilson (Author), Alicia O'Cathain (Author), Andrew Booth (Author), Daniel Bradbury (Author), Steve Goodacre (Author), Anne Spaight (Author), Jane Shewan (Author), Richard Pilbery (Author), Daniel Fall (Author), Maggie Marsh (Author), Andrea Broadway-Parkinson (Author), Ronan Lyons (Author), Helen Snooks (Author), Mike Campbell (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: NIHR Journals Library, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Ambulance service quality measures have focused on response times and a small number of emergency conditions, such as cardiac arrest. These quality measures do not reflect the care for the wide range of problems that ambulance services respond to and the Prehospital Outcomes for Evidence...