The association between emergency medical services field performance assessed by high-fidelity simulation and the cognitive knowledge of practicing paramedics

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1177-1185

  Studnek, Jonathan R ^a   Fernandez, Antonio R ^b   Shimberg, Brian ^c   Garifo, Melissa ^c   Correll, Michelle ^c  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Mecklenburg EMS Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACE VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 81755165975     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01208.x     Document Type: Article

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