EMS helicopter crashes: What influences fatal outcome?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 351-356

  Baker, Susan P ^a,b   Grabowski, Jurek G ^b   Dodd, Robert S ^a   Shanahan, Dennis F ^a   Lamb, Margaret W ^a   Li, Guohua H ^a,b  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DARKNESS; DEATH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FATALITY; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

EID: 33645012047     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.11.018     Document Type: Article

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