Knowledge and attitudes of the out-of-hospital emergency care consumers in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 373-376

  Báez, Amado Alejandro ^a,c   Giraldez, Ediza ^a   Lane, Peter L ^d   Pozner, Charles ^a   Rodriguez, Juan ^b   Rogers, Selwyn ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Dominican Republic's Secretariat of Public Health   (Dominican Republic)

^c Hospital General de la Plaza de la Salud   (Dominican Republic)

^d Emergency Medicine Hospital General Plaza de la Salud ^*

Author keywords

Dominican Republic; emergency medical services; prehospital care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 58149159215     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00006038     Document Type: Article

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