Does telephone triage of emergency (999) calls using advanced medical priority dispatch (AMPDS) with Department of Health (DH) call prioritisation effectively identify patients with an acute coronary syndrome? An audit of 42 657 emergency calls to Hampshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 232-235

  Deakin, Charles D ^a   Sherwood, D M ^a   Smith, A ^b   Cassidy, M ^a  

^a Hampshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GOVERNMENT; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEPHONE; THORAX PAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; EMERGENCY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CHEST PAIN; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; ENGLAND; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATE MEDICINE; TELEPHONE; TRIAGE;

EID: 33645559070     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2004.022962     Document Type: Article

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