Utilization of emergency medical services in a large urban area: Description of call types and temporal trends

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 371-380

  Munjal, Kevin G ^a,b   Silverman, Robert A ^c   Freese, John ^a   Braun, James D ^a   Kaufman, Bradley J ^a,c   Isaacs, Douglas ^a,c   Werner, Andrew ^a   Webber, Mayris ^e   Hall, Charles B ^d   Prezant, David J ^a,d  

^a Government of New york   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; epidemiology; population; public health; trends; urban; utilization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79957659636     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903127.2011.561403     Document Type: Article

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