• https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/67335/
• https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/64975/
• https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/61688/
• https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/76915/
• https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/75927/
• https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/77217/

This is a thesis by publication. Published articles included in chapters 5 and 7 have been redacted from the thesis due to copyright restrictions.

Six publications arising from this thesis are stored in ResearchOnline@JCU, at the time of processing. Please see the Related URLs. The publications are:

[Chapter 2] Edwards, Kristin H., FitzGerald, Gerard, Franklin, Richard C., and Edwards, Mark Terrell (2021) Measuring more than mortality: a scoping review of air ambulance outcome measures in a combined Institutes of Medicine and Donabedian quality framework. Australasian Emergency Care, 24 (2). pp. 147-159.

[Chapter 3] Edwards, Kristin H., Fitzgerald, Gerard, Franklin, Richard C., and Edwards, Mark Terrell (2020) Air ambulance outcome measures using Institutes of Medicine and Donabedian quality frameworks: protocol for a systematic scoping review. Systematic Reviews, 9. 72.

[Chapter 4] Edwards, Kristin H., Franklin, Richard C., Aitken, Peter, Elcock, Mark, and Edwards, Mark Terrell (2019) A program profile of air medical transport in regional Central Queensland, Australia. Air Medical Journal, 38 (6). pp. 431-436.

[Chapter 5] Edwards, Kristin H., Franklin, Richard C., Jones, Rhondda, Kuhnert, Petra M., and Khanna, Sankalp (2022) Using a Quality Framework to Explore Air Ambulance Patients' Journey Outcomes in Central Queensland, Australia. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 38 (1). pp. 57-64.

[Chapter 6] Edwards, Kristin H., Edwards, Mark T., Franklin, Richard C., Khanna, Sankalp, Kuhnert, Petra M., and Jones, Rhondda (2023) Air ambulance retrievals of patients with suspected appendicitis and acute abdominal pain: The patients' journeys, referral pathways and appendectomy outcomes using linked data in Central Queensland, Australia. Australasian Emergency Care, 26 (1). pp. 13-23.

[Chapter 7] Edwards, Kristin H., Franklin, Richard C., Edwards, Mark T., and Stewart, Ruth A. (2023) Requesting air ambulance transport of patients with suspected appendicitis: The decision-making process through the eyes of the rural clinician. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 31 (3). pp. 426-435.