A multisite survey of factors contributing to medically unnecessary ambulance transports

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1046-1050

  Billittier IV, Anthony J ^a,c   Moscati, Ronald ^a   Janicke, David ^a   Lerner, E Brooke ^a   Seymour, Jeffrey ^a   Olsson, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ambulances; emergency medical services; EMS; medical necessity; paramedic; survey

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; MEDICAID; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029829485     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03352.x     Document Type: Article

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