{"id":275,"date":"2014-04-05T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjr.ufv.ca\/?p=275"},"modified":"2014-04-05T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T23:17:07","slug":"british-columbia-ambulance-service-resource-allocation-plan-an-analysis-of-recent-changes-to-call-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/2014\/04\/05\/british-columbia-ambulance-service-resource-allocation-plan-an-analysis-of-recent-changes-to-call-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"British Columbia Ambulance Service Resource Allocation Plan: An Analysis of Recent Changes to Call Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>On October 29, 2013, the BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) implemented a change to their BC Ambulance Service Resource Allocation Plan (RAP) resulting in 74 incident codes being downgraded to Code 2 (routine) calls instead of their previous designation as Code 3 (lights and sirens) calls. BCEHS has asserted that the changes were made to optimize the use of resources in a manner that prioritizes the allocation of resources based on the most emergent needs. According to BCEHS the process undertaken to make the changes involved a thorough review of over 630,000 patient calls with a focus on call outcomes to ensure that only those calls that warranted a downgrading to routine based on an outcome analysis were in fact downgraded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ufv.ca%2Fmedia%2Fassets%2Fcriminal-justice-research%2FUFV-Research-Note-April-2014-Final.pdf&hl=en_US&embedded=true\" class=\"gde-frame\" style=\"width:100%; height:500px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p class=\"gde-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/criminal-justice-research\/UFV-Research-Note-April-2014-Final.pdf\" class=\"gde-link\">Download (PDF, Unknown)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 29, 2013, the BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) implemented a change to their BC Ambulance Service Resource Allocation Plan (RAP) resulting in 74 incident codes being downgraded to Code 2 (routine) calls instead of their previous designation as Code 3 (lights and sirens) calls. BCEHS has asserted that the changes were made to &#8230; <a title=\"British Columbia Ambulance Service Resource Allocation Plan: An Analysis of Recent Changes to Call Codes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/2014\/04\/05\/british-columbia-ambulance-service-resource-allocation-plan-an-analysis-of-recent-changes-to-call-codes\/\" aria-label=\"More on British Columbia Ambulance Service Resource Allocation Plan: An Analysis of Recent Changes to Call Codes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":2124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}