Prehospital Care Research—The Basics

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 6, Issue sup2, 2002, Pages S2-S8

  Cone, David C ^a   Lerner, E Brooke ^b   Yealy, Donald M ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPERIMENT; HOSPITAL; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036211524     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903120209102675     Document Type: Article

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