Making up one's mind: - Patients' experiences of calling an ambulance

Accident and Emergency Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-19

  Ahl, Caroline ^a,b   Nyström, Maria ^a   Jansson, Lilian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ambulance; Content analysis; Patient experience; Prehospital emergency care

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; SWEDEN; TIME PERCEPTION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULANCES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SWEDEN; TIME PERCEPTION; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 30444431908     PISSN: 09652302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aaen.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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