LibGuides: Emergency Medical Services: Websites

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Disaster Handouts and Links The site focuses on emotional trauma and stress; includes emergency medical sites and disaster related sites.
JEMS Online Current articles, buyers guides, news, and tutorials.
National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians The NREMT is the Nation’s Emergency Medical Services Certification organization.
Resources for EMS Professionals (NREMT) Links to relevant resources provided by the National Registry of EMTs.
The Shift Extension From About Us: The Shift Extension is a free-to-access, open-source publication that is committed to providing industry-relevant information and literature to enhance the development of the paramedicine profession through the sharing of information. One of our main aims is to reduce the loss of important, yet unpublished paramedic literature. Our goal is to capture this information and create a repository of short publications considered valuable to the international paramedic community.
Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services Information on EMS in Virginia including training, certification, continuing education, emergency numbers, trauma centers and news.

NOTE: Many government and organizational websites include statistical information and/or other research.

Centers for Disease Control National and international data for diseases and conditions.
Hospital Compare Compare the quality of care that hospitals provide. It provides a list of U.S. hospitals which includes hospital demographics (location, hospital type) and 44 quality-of-care measures.
National Center for Health Statistics This division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathers statistics on many health topics. An excellent place to start your search for health statistics.

Evaluate websites that have information you would like to use in your assignments.

Look on each website for an "About Us" page to answer some of the following questions:

	("emergency medical services" OR "ems") AND patient outcomes site:.gov
	174,000 results
	How do emergency medical services impact patient outcomes?
	3,150,000 results

Here's how to craft a better search to get fewer and more relevant results:

Identify the main ideas in your research question.
How do emergency medical services impact patient outcomes?
Connect the main ideas with AND.
emergency medical services AND patient outcomes
Use quotation marks around 2 or more words that need to be together.
"emergency medical services" AND "patient outcomes"
Use OR between synonyms/related terms.
("emergency medical services" OR "ems") AND patient outcomes
Limit your search to a specific domain, such as .edu, .gov, or .org.
("emergency medical services" OR "ems") AND patient outcomes site:.gov

How Wikipedia CAN be useful in the beginning stages of research:

	A basic overview of your topic.
	Important names, vocabulary and keywords related to your topic.
	Table of contents for some entries, helping you to understand how your topic can be organized.
	References and other websites that may be helpful (though you will need to evaluate them to be sure).

Why NOT to use Wikipedia for academic research:

X The accuracy and authority of a Wikipedia article cannot be verified.