Comparison of rural and urban ambulance crashes in Pennsylvania

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 416-420

  Ray, Adam M ^a,b   Kupas, Douglas F ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b St Margaret Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulance; EMS; Injury prevention; Motor vehicle crashes; Rural; Urban

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRIVER; DRIVING ABILITY; INJURY SCALE; RURAL AREA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN AREA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AMBULANCES; HUMANS; PENNSYLVANIA; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34848913708     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120701536966     Document Type: Article

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