Journal article
Evaluation of a community paramedicine health promotion and lifestyle risk assessment program for older adults who live in social housing: a cluster randomized trial
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Low-income older adults who live in subsidized housing have higher mortality and morbidity. We aimed to determine if a community paramedicine program - in which paramedics provide health care services outside of the traditional emergency response - reduced the number of ambulance calls to subsidized housing for older adults.
METHODS: We conducted an open-label pragmatic cluster-randomized controlled trial (RCT) with parallel …
Authors
Agarwal G; Angeles R; Pirrie M; McLeod B; Marzanek F; Parascandalo J; Thabane L
Journal
Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 190, No. 21, pp. e638–e647
Publisher
Joule
Publication Date
May 28, 2018
DOI
10.1503/cmaj.170740
ISSN
0820-3946