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International Perspectives: Australian Ambulance Services in 2020

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Prehospital care in Australia is slowly evolving, from the current traditional paradigm of protocol-driven care delivered by vocationally trained providers to safe clinical care based on the evidence of improved patient outcomes, dispensed by tertiary educated, registered practitioners. This fundamental change in system-wide practice is hampered by the various challenges of vast geographical distance, fiscal constraint, paucity of robust data and a lack of political will and understanding of the critical importance of evidence-based policy.

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    Kevin Mackway-Jones

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Middleton, P. (2015). International Perspectives: Australian Ambulance Services in 2020. In: Wankhade, P., Mackway-Jones, K. (eds) Ambulance Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18642-9_14

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