Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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To review the literature for options for integrating injury prevention into the role of out-of-hospital emergency medical services (EMS). ⋯ As changes in the market compel health care systems to focus more on prevention, EMS organizations and individual providers may be assuming new injury prevention roles. Some EMS systems in many parts of the country have incorporated PIP into their work. It is necessary, however, to determine which PIP roles are effective and how they will be supported.