Refusal of out-of-hospital medical care: Effect of medical-control physician assertiveness on transport rate

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 4-8

  Burstein, Jonathan L ^a   Hollander, Judd E ^a,b   Delagi, Robert ^a   Gold, Matthew ^b   Henry, Mark C ^a   Alicandro, Jeanne M ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulance; Assertiveness; Base station; Emergency medical services; EMS; Medical control; Patient care refusal; Patient transport

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031962179     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1998.tb02566.x     Document Type: Article

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