A simple three-step dispatch rule may reduce lights and sirens responses to motor vehicle crashes

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 592-595

  Isenberg, Derek ^a   Cone, David C ^b   Stiell, Ian G ^c  

^a MERCY CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862887976     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2011-200133     Document Type: Article

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