Ambulance diversion

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 100-103

  Glushak, Cai ^a   Delbridge, Theodore R ^b,c   Garrison, Herbert G ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Standards and Clinical Practices Committee ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RESIDENTIAL CARE; STANDARD; TIME; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AMBULANCES; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031108194     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903129708958797     Document Type: Article

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