Background: For about 25 000 Ontarians living in remote northern First Nations
communities, seeing a doctor in an emergency department requires flying in an airplane or …

Introduction: Canada's northern territories are characterized by small, scattered populations
separated by long distances. A major challenge to healthcare delivery is the reliance on …

Objective Using a strength‐based framework, we aimed to describe and compare First
Nations patients who completed care in an ED to those who took their own leave. Methods …

1. VanderBurgh D, Savage DW, Dubois S, et al. Epidemiologic features of medical
emergencies in remote First Nations in northern Ontario: a cross-sectional descriptive study …

Aim The aim of our study is to describe the characteristics of patients who use emergency
medical services (EMS), EMS performance, and regional variations in Japan. Methods We …

Introduction Approximately fifty percent of Canada's Indigenous population resides in remote
and rural communities, where life expectancy is five to seven years shorter than in the rest of …

Introduction: This descriptive research used a large, urban population-based data set for
prehospital emergency medical transports to examine racial/ethnic patterns of access and …

The purpose of the study was to determine if disparities existed in the non-emergency
medical transportation (NEMT) system in the lower 34 counties of southern Illinois. NEMT is …

Background. Once emergency medical services (EMS) personnel decide to transport a
trauma patient directly to definitive care, the next key decision at the scene of injury is …

Objective: The objective of this retrospective descriptive study was to evaluate the use of air
medical services in response to medical scene calls for transport to tertiary care in the rural …