Physician versus paramedic in the setting of ground forces operations: Are they interchangeable?

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 301-305

  Levy, Gad ^a   Goldstein, Liav ^a   Erez, Yair ^a   Levite, Ronen ^a   Bar, Udi ^a   Marmor, Meir ^c   Linn, Guy ^d   Onn, Erez ^d   Levi, Yehezkel ^d   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^a,b  

^a ISRAELI AIR FORCE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Search and Rescue Unit   (Israel)

^d MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FITNESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MILITARY SERVICE; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMEDICAL PROFESSION; PHYSICIAN; RESUSCITATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOLDIER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33947114227     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.3.301     Document Type: Article

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