Avoiding admissions from the ambulance service: A review of elderly patients with falls and patients with breathing difficulties seen by emergency care practitioners in South Yorkshire

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 168-171

  Gray, James T ^a   Walker, A ^a  

^a YORKSHIRE AMBULANCE SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULANCE; BREATHING DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AMBULANCES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE;

EID: 40449135671     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.050732     Document Type: Review

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