Calling emergency medical services during drug overdose: An examination of individual, social and setting correlates

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 397-404

  Tobin, Karin E ^a   Davey, Melissa A ^a   Latkin, Carl A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bystander responses; Diffusion of responsibility; Overdose; Social factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPERIENCE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGED; OVERDOSE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 14944353727     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.00975.x     Document Type: Review

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