Emergency service use by older people in Samsun, Turkey

Advances in Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-53

  Dundar, Cihad ^a   Sunter, A Tevfik ^a   Canbaz, Sevgi ^a   Cetinoglu, Erhan ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ambulance transport; Emergency service; EMS; Older patients

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TURKEY;

EID: 33646159277     PISSN: 0741238X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02850346     Document Type: Article

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