Improving rural emergency medical service response time with global positioning system navigation

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 899-902

  Gonzalez, Richard P ^a   Cummings, Glenn R ^a   Mulekar, Madhuri S ^b   Harlan, Shana M ^a   Rodning, Charles B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

EMS; Global positioning system; GPS; Motor vehicle crashes; Response time; Rural trauma

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RURAL AREA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RURAL HEALTH CARE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALABAMA; AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 73649106568     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181bc781d     Document Type: Article

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