Patient delay and use of ambulance by patients with chest pain

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 218-223

  Ingarfield, Sharyn L ^a   Jacobs, Ian G ^a,c   Jelinek, George A ^a,d   Mountain, David ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Western Australian Prehospital Care Research Unit   (Australia)

^d Western Australian Prehospital Care Research Unit ^*

^e Emergency Department

Author keywords

Ambulance; Chest pain; Emergency medicine; Myocardial infarction; Patient delay

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ANAMNESIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGHT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 22644436007     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2005.00726.x     Document Type: Article

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