Short-term outcome of seizure patients who refuse transport after out-of-hospital evaluation

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 231-236

  Mechem, C Crawford ^a,b   Barger, Jennifer ^a   Shofer, Frances S ^a   Dickinson, Edward T ^a  

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

^b Philadelphia Fire Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Health care; Quality assurance; Seizures; Treatment refusal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE;

EID: 0035091304     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb01298.x     Document Type: Article

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