Brendan Shannon- Frequent attendance not "frequent flyers"

This episode we are excited to talk to Brendan Shannon who is a Paramedic with Ambulance Victoria, lecturer and current PhD student at the Department of Paramedicine at Monash University.  Brendan is going to discuss his recent co-authored research titled “What is the prevalence of frequent attendance to emergency departments and what is the impact on emergency department utilisation? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Link to the article can be found here:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11739-020-02403-2 

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The Department of Paramedicine podcast aims to share and disseminate the latest research and scholarship from academics and researchers at Monash University and paramedicine experts around the world. We aim to cover as many diverse topics as possible and hear from our faculty, students and domestic and international colleagues at different stages of their academic, research and clinical careers. We know you are busy, so we aim to keep each episode easily digestible. We want each episode to be easy to listen to and have aimed to make each episode conversational, relaxed and not full of research jargon. We want you to relate the discussions of different paramedicine systems and results of each study to your experiences so that we can positively impact providing better clinical care and ensure that our paramedic practice is based on sound clinical evidence. We hope you enjoy every episode. All music used is unrestricted or under a creative commons license. Artist credit: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Mission_Ready