Emergency medical services transport of patients with headache: Mode of arrival may indicate serious etiology

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 304-307

  Nemer, Jacqueline A ^a   Tallick, Susan A ^b   O'Connor, Robert E ^b,c   Reese, Charles L ^b  

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

^b CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Office of EMS   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency medical services; headache; intracranial hemorrhage; meningitis; out of hospital care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DELAWARE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 0032185651     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903129808958885     Document Type: Article

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