Community trial to decrease ambulance diversion hours: The San Diego county patient destination trial

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 295-303

  Vilke, Gary M ^a,b   Castillo, Edward M ^a   Metz, Marcelyn A ^a   Upledger Ray, Leslie ^a   Murrin, Patricia A ^a   Lev, Roneet ^a   Chan, Theodore C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULANCE; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4544344247     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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