Opportunity for change: is it time to redefine the role of paramedics in healthcare?

Ian R Drennan¹, Ian E Blanchard^{2

3}, Jason E Buick⁴

Affiliations

¹ Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada. Ian.Drennan@Sunnybrook.ca.
² Emergency Medical Services, Alberta Health Services, AB, Canada.
³ Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
⁴ Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Editorial

Ian R Drennan et al. CJEM. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;23(2):139-140.

doi: 10.1007/s43678-021-00105-y. Epub 2021 Mar 11.

Ian R Drennan¹, Ian E Blanchard^{2

3}, Jason E Buick⁴

¹ Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada. Ian.Drennan@Sunnybrook.ca.
² Emergency Medical Services, Alberta Health Services, AB, Canada.
³ Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
⁴ Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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Comment on

Decrease in emergency medical services utilization during early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia.
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