Physician-staffed HEMS dispatch in the Netherlands: Adequate deployment or minimal utilization?

Air Medical Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 248-251

  Ringburg, Akkie N ^a   Frissen, Iris N ^a   Spanjersberg, Willem R ^a   de Jel, Gerard ^b   Frankema, Sander P G ^a   Schipper, Inger B ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Emergency Medical Services Dispatch Center   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HELICOPTER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NURSE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURVIVAL;

AIR AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 29444435035     PISSN: 1067991X     EISSN: 15326497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amj.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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