Background: This systematic review aimed to describe non-conveyance in ambulance care from patient-safety and ambulance professional perspectives. The review specifically focussed at describing (1) ambulance non-conveyance rates, (2) characteristics of non-conveyed patients, (3) follow-up care after …

Background: This study compares the assessment, treatment, referral, and follow up contact with the dispatch centre of emergency patients treated by two types of solo emergency care providers in ambulance emergency medical services (EMS) in the Netherlands: the physician assistant (PA), educated in the …

Pain is one of the main complaints of trauma patients in (pre-hospital) emergency medicine. Significant deficiencies in pain management in emergency medicine have been identified. No evidence-based protocols or guidelines have been developed so far, addressing effectiveness and safety issues, taking …

Pijn is de meest voorkomende klacht op de spoedeisende hulp (SEH). Dit artikel richt zich op de prevalentie van pijn en de onderbehandeling van pijn bij volwassen traumapatiënten op de SEH. Het artikel presenteert nieuwe inzichten in de pijnbehandeling, gebaseerd op een recentelijk ontwikkelde richtlijn …

In de toekomst zal pijnbehandeling in ziekenhuizen steeds meer op de voorgrond komen te staan. Daarmee groeit ook de behoefte aan gespecialiseerd en gekwalificeerd personeel. Voor de Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen was dit aanleiding om een post-HBO-opleiding tot pijnconsulent te ontwikkelen. …

Adherence to ambulance and ED protocols is often suboptimal. Insight into factors influencing adherence is a requisite for improvement of adherence. This study aims to gain an in-depth understanding of factors that influence ambulance and emergency nurses’ adherence to protocols. …

Colleague van Dijk wrote an interesting article about the perception of pain scores, based on the relationship between two questionnaires and the results on these questionnaires of patients and caregivers (van Dijk et al., 2011). It is a nice article with a good description of the questionnaires and …