Pediatric critical care telemedicine in rural underserved emergency departments

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 588-591

  Heath, Barry ^a   Salerno, Richard ^a   Hopkins, Amelia ^a   Hertzig, Jeremy ^a,b   Caputo, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Rural health; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; TELECONSULTATION; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; NEW YORK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; TELEMEDICINE; VERMONT;

EID: 70349897462     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181a63eac     Document Type: Article

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