A regional review of air medical transports for fatal motor vehicle crashes

Air Medical Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 83-89

  Garthe, Elizabeth A ^a   Mango, Nicholas K ^a   Prenney, Brad ^b  

^a Garthe Associates   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air medical; Automatic crash notification; Event data recorders; Fatal analysis reporting system; Linkage; Population based; Utilization review

Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY SCALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AIR AMBULANCES; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRIAGE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0034231064     PISSN: 1067991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mmj.2000.108562     Document Type: Article

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