Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2008
Handover from paramedics: observations and emergency department clinician perceptions.
1. To evaluate emergency clinician attitudes towards handover from prehospital paramedics. 2. To determine the content and methods of paramedic handover delivery to emergency clinicians. ⋯ Although there is satisfaction in paramedic handover, prehospital notification and emergency physician contact with paramedics is uncommon for low acuity patients, who constitute the majority of ambulance attendances and hospital admissions. Scope for improved direct doctor-paramedic communication exists.