Barriers and facilitators to provide effective pre-hospital trauma care for road traffic injury victims in Iran: A grounded theory approach

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Haghparast Bidgoli, Hassan ^a,b,c   Hasselberg, Marie ^a   Khankeh, Hamidreza ^d   Khorasani Zavareh, Davoud ^e   Johansson, Eva ^a,f  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERVIEW; IRAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INJURY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMANS; IRAN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78049453628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-10-20     Document Type: Article

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