Potential reduction of costs and hospital emergency department visits resulting from prehospital transtelephonic triage - The Shahal experience in Israel

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 271-276

  Roth, Arie ^a,b   Malov, Naomi ^a   Carthy, Ziv ^a   Golovner, Michal ^a   Naveh, Rachel ^a   Alroy, Iki ^a   Kaplinsky, Elieser ^a   Laniado, Shlomo ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ambulance; Chest pain; Emergency department; Prehospital

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST CONTROL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 0034029890     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960230410     Document Type: Article

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