Establishing a successful pre-hospital emergency service in a developing country: Experience from Rescue 1122 service in Pakistan

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 513-515

  Waseem, Hunniya ^a   Naseer, Rizwan ^a   Razzak, Junaid Abdul ^b  

^a Punjab Emergency Service   (Pakistan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE WORK; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVIEW;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PAKISTAN; PILOT PROJECTS; POVERTY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79956349046     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2010.096271     Document Type: Review

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