Anthony Carnicelli

Paramedic

Australia

Doctorate Title: Exploring the Factors Associated with Paramedic Treatment, Transport or Referral of Low Acuity Cases in Ambulance Tasmania.

Doctorate Description: The aim of this research is to explore factors that influence paramedic decision making when determining whether to treat, transport, refer, and/or discharge into the community patients considered to have low acuity illnesses or injury. This research will inform the direction of paramedic education, clinical practice, and operational response. Moreover, it is hoped that by identifying gaps in education, practice, and service delivery; it will work towards potentially reducing the unnecessary transport of some low acuity patients to emergency departments, which in turn, may reduce ambulance off-load delay, ambulance response times, ED bed block, and improve the patient health care experience.