Effects of international football matches on ambulance call profiles and volumes during the 2006 World Cup

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 405-407

  Deakin, Charles D ^a   Thompson, Fizz ^a   Gibson, Caroline ^a   Green, Mark ^a  

^a Hampshire Division ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; COLLAPSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPORTING EVENT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKLOAD;

AMBULANCES; CAUSALITY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; SOCCER; TIME FACTORS; VIOLENCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 34249849144     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.046920     Document Type: Article

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