Direct Paramedic Transport of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Centers: A Decision Analysis

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Henry E ^a   Marroquin, Oscar C ^b   Smith, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CENTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 58249130706     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.07.020     Document Type: Article

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