Out-of-hospital intravenous access: Unnecessary procedures and excessive cost

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 878-882

  Gausche, Marianne ^a,c   Tadeo, Richard E ^b   Zane, Martha C ^c   Lewis, Roger J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriateness; Cost; Emergency medical services; Intravenous; Prehospital

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 0031662274     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1998.tb02817.x     Document Type: Article

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