Is ambulance telephone triage using advanced medical priority dispatch protocols able to identify patients with acute stroke correctly?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 442-445

  Deakin, C D ^a   Alasaad, M ^a   King, P ^a   Thompson, F ^a  

^a South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AMBULANCES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; MALE; STROKE; TELEPHONE; TRIAGE;

EID: 66849138456     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2008.059733     Document Type: Article

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