Differentiation of Providencia species bloodstream infections: A population-based analysis.

Background: Although Providencia species are recognised as important causes of bloodstream infections (BSI), their epidemiology is not well defined due to their infrequent occurrence. Our objective was to determine the overall incidence, determinants, and outcomes of Providencia species BSI, and compare the epidemiology of P. stuartii and P.

Requesting air ambulance transport of patients with suspected appendicitis: The decision-making process through the eyes of the rural clinician.

Objective: The primary aim is to explore rural clinicians' self-reported knowledge, skills and attitudes in the decision-making process for requesting aeromedical retrieval of patients with suspected appendicitis. A secondary aim is to understand the supports and barriers of rural clinicians experience in this clinical scenario.

Setting: Clinician interviews conducted face-to-face in three rural hospitals in Central Queensland.

Using a Quality Framework to Explore Air Ambulance Patients' Journey Outcomes in Central Queensland, Australia.

Introduction: In Australia, aeromedical retrieval provides a vital link for rural communities with limited health services to definitive care in urban centers. Yet, there are few studies of aeromedical patient experiences and outcomes, or clear measures of the service quality provided to these patients.

Study Objective: This study explores whether a previously developed quality framework could usefully be applied to existing air ambulance patient journeys (ie, the sequences of care that span multiple settings; prehospital and hospital-based pre-flight, flight transport, after-flight hospital in-patient, and disposition).

Air ambulance retrievals of patients with suspected appendicitis and acute abdominal pain: The patients' journeys, referral pathways and appendectomy outcomes using linked data in Central Queensland, Australia.

Introduction: Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of acute abdominal pain presentations to the ED and common air ambulance transfer.

Aims: describe how linked data can be used to explore patients' journeys, referral pathways and request-to-activation responsiveness of patients' appendectomy outcomes (minor vs major complexity).

Methods: Data sources were linked: aeromedical, hospital and death.

Measuring More than Mortality: A scoping review of air ambulance outcome measures in a combined Institutes of Medicine and Donabedian quality framework.

Introduction: Measuring the performance of air ambulance services are complex and dynamic due to the variability and interconnectedness of emergency systems. The aim of this study is to review the range and nature of air ambulance outcome measures published in peer review articles and construct a quality framework based on the results. A scoping review of the literature was conducted to identify outcome measures that evaluate the quality of air ambulance services.

Air ambulance outcome measures using Institutes of Medicine and Donabedian quality frameworks: protocol for a systematic scoping review.

Background: Dedicated air ambulance services provide a vital link for critically ill and injured patients to higher levels of care. The recent developments of pre-hospital and retrieval medicine create an opportunity for air ambulance providers and policy-makers to utilize a dashboard of quality performance measures to assess service performance. The objective of this scoping systematic review will be to identify and evaluate the range of air ambulance outcome measures reported in the literature and help to construct a quality dashboard based on a healthcare quality framework.

A Program Profile of Air Medical Transport in Regional Central Queensland, Australia.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the epidemiology of air medical patients and referral patterns in Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CQHHS).

Methods: Analysis of air medical transport from January 2010 to December 2014. Air medical tasks within the local health service boundary were included.

Review article: Primary aeromedical retrievals in Australia: An interrogation and search for context.

Primary aeromedical retrievals are a direct scene response to patients with a critical injury or illness using a medically equipped aircraft. They are often high-acuity taskings. In Australia, information on primary retrieval taskings is housed by service providers, of which there are many across the country.