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Measuring teamwork and conflict among emergency medical technician personnelP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine and Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Inc, Pennsylvania, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 16:98-108. 2012..We sought to develop a reliable and valid tool for measuring teamwork among emergency medical technician (EMT) partnerships...
Network analysis of team communication in a busy emergency departmentP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 13:109. 2013..We sought to use Social Network Analysis (SNA) to characterize communication between clinicians in the ED...
Identification of adverse events in ground transport emergency medical servicesP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Am J Med Qual 27:139-46. 2012..Overall physician agreement on presence of an AE per chart was fair (κ = 0.24; 95% CI = 0.19, 0.29). These findings should serve as a basis for refining and implementing an AE evaluation instrument...
Variation in emergency medical technician partner familiarityP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Health Serv Res 46:1319-31. 2011..We standardized select measures by size of agency to account for a greater number of possible partnerships in larger agencies...
Case reports and case series in prehospital emergency care researchP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Center for Emergency Medicine of Western PA Inc, 3600 Forbes Avenue, Iroquois Bldg, Suite 400A, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Emerg Med J 27:807-9. 2010..Also described is the use of case reports and case series study designs in prehospital emergency research and the quality of published literature from 2000 to mid-2008...
Variation in emergency medical services workplace safety cultureP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine and Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Inc, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 14:448-60. 2010..Workplace attitude, beliefs, and culture may impact the safety of patient care. This study characterized perceptions of safety culture in a nationwide sample of emergency medical services (EMS) agencies...
The longitudinal study of turnover and the cost of turnover in emergency medical servicesP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 14:209-21. 2010..Few studies have examined employee turnover and associated costs in emergency medical services (EMS)...
Sleep quality and fatigue among prehospital providersP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pernnsylvania 15261, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 14:187-93. 2010..Fatigue is common among medical professionals and has been linked to poor performance and medical error. Objective. To characterize sleep quality and its association with severe fatigue in emergency medical services (EMS) providers...
The emergency medical services safety attitudes questionnaireP Daniel Patterson
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15213, USA
Am J Med Qual 25:109-15. 2010..Variation in safety culture scores across EMS agencies within a single geographic area, as well as variation across respondent characteristics, warrants further investigation...
Characterizing job satisfaction and intent to leave among nationally registered emergency medical technicians: an analysis of the 2005 LEADS surveyP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 230 McKee Place, Suite 400, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Allied Health 38:e84-91. 2009..In future and replicated research, one will need to consider different person and organizational variables in predicting different measures of job satisfaction among EMS personnel...
Workforce priorities: three steps to determine what they are & move forwardDaniel Patterson
University of Pittsburgh
JEMS 34:52-9. 2009..5,6,9) The recent inclusion of a special rural EMS session at the National Conference of State Legislatures 2007 annual meeting suggests that concern among local politicians has reached a tipping point, which may prompt action...
Service integration and workforce trends in emergency medical servicesP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
N C Med J 68:262-5. 2007
Association between poor sleep, fatigue, and safety outcomes in emergency medical services providersP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 16:86-97. 2012..To determine the association between poor sleep quality, fatigue, and self-reported safety outcomes among emergency medical services (EMS) workers...
Medical necessity in emergency medical services transportsMatthew D Weaver
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA
Am J Med Qual 27:250-5. 2012..Our findings from a nationally representative sample highlight the opportunity for alternative patient delivery strategies for select patients seeking EMS services...
Comparison of public safety provider injury ratesJoe Suyama
Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Responder Human Performance Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 13:451-5. 2009..Objective. To determine the types and severity of injuries encountered by public safety personnel during routine work conditions within a single urban population...
The relationship between shift work, sleep, and cognition in career emergency physiciansMari S Machi
Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Responder Human Performance Lab, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:85-91. 2012..We measured changes in cognition and sleep disturbance in attending emergency physicians (EPs) before and after day and overnight shifts...
The effect of shift length on fatigue and cognitive performance in air medical providersFrancis Xavier Guyette
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 17:23-8. 2013..To employ a battery of previously validated surveys and neuropsychological tests to compare changes in fatigue and cognitive abilities of air medical providers after 12- and 24-hour shifts...
Paramedic determinations of medical necessity: a meta-analysisLawrence H Brown
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 13:516-27. 2009..Objective. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated studies reporting U.S. paramedics' ability to determine medical necessity of ambulance transport...
Expected annual emergency miles per ambulance: an indicator for measuring availability of Emergency Medical Services resourcesP Daniel Patterson
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Rural Health 22:102-11. 2006..To ensure equitable access to prehospital care, as recommended by the Rural and Frontier Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agenda for the Future, policymakers will need a uniform measure of EMS infrastructure...
Medically unnecessary emergency medical services (EMS) transports among children ages 0 to 17 yearsP Daniel Patterson
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 725 Martin Luther King Jr, Blvd, CB 7590, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Matern Child Health J 10:527-36. 2006..Estimate the prevalence of medically unnecessary Emergency Medical Services (EMS) transports among children...
Use of ED diagnosis to determine medical necessity of EMS transportsP Daniel Patterson
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 10:488-93. 2006..To examine interrater agreement for classifying emergency medical services transports as medically unnecessary using emergency department diagnosis as the sole determining factor...
Management and financing of emergency medical servicesTodd Hatley
Integral Performance Solutions, NC, USA
N C Med J 68:259-61. 2007
Emergency Medical Services and the federal government's evolving role: what rural and frontier Emergency Medical Services advocates should knowP Daniel Patterson
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Rural Health 22:97-101. 2006
