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Search Filters for Prehospital Care, Paramedicine and Emergency Medical Dispatch

Search filters are pre-prepared searches on commonly used topics than enable effective and efficient searching by choosing the best keywords and thesaural terms for you.

Why are there two filters for paramedicine and prehospital care?

The filters cover two complementary topics:

  1. Prehospital Care – includes all aspects of prehospital care.
  2. Paramedicine – includes any out of-hospital non-physician delivered healthcare.

The choice of a filter will depend on your approach to the topic of your search. See also the section on Contingency Plans for advice on how to manage the number of search results.