The Epidemiology of Emergency Medical Services Use by Older Adults: An Analysis of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 441-447

  Shah, Manish N ^a   Bazarian, Jeffrey J ^a   Lerner, E Brooke ^a   Fairbanks, Rollin J ^a   Barker, William H ^a   Auinger, Peggy ^a   Friedman, Bruce ^a  

^a Departments of Emergency Medicine (MNS JJB EBL RJF PA)   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency medical services; emergency medicine; epidemiology; geriatrics; prehospital care

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN POPULATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROBABILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34147183317     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.01.019     Document Type: Article

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