Are they really refusing to travel? A qualitative study of prehospital records

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Shaw, Deborah ^a   Dyas, Jane V ^b   Middlemass, Jo ^c   Spaight, Anne ^a   Briggs, Maureen ^a   Christopher, Sarah ^a   Siriwardena, A Niroshan ^a,d  

^a EAST MIDLANDS AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Hucknall Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; TRAVEL;

EID: 33750211103     PISSN: 1471227X     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-6-8     Document Type: Article

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