Where there are no emergency medical services-Prehospital care for the injured in Mumbai, India

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 145-151

  Roy, Nobhojit ^a   Murlidhar, V ^b   Chowdhury, Ritam ^b   Patil, Sandeep B ^b   Supe, Priyanka A ^b   Vaishnav, Poonam D ^b   Vatkar, Arvind ^b  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b LOKMANYA TILAK MUNICIPAL MEDICAL COLLEGE AND GENERAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

ambulance; developing countries; emergency medical services (EMS); India; injury; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77954692740     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00007883     Document Type: Article

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