Small rural emergency services still manage acutely unwell patients: A cross-sectional study

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 131-138

  Baker, Tim ^a   Dawson, Samantha L ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hospital emergency service; Hospital record; Medical record; Rural hospital

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STOMACH LAVAGE; THORACOCENTESIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; URBAN AREA; URINALYSIS; VEIN PUNCTURE; WOUND DRESSING; ACUTE DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACUTE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; VICTORIA;

EID: 84897946241     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12229     Document Type: Article

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