Prehospital and Emergency Care: Updates from the Disease Control Priorities, Version 3

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2161-2167

  Hsia, Renee Y ^a   Thind, Amardeep ^b   Zakariah, Ahmed ^c   Hicks, Eduardo Romero ^d   Mock, Charles ^e  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c National Ambulance Services   (Ghana)

^d Sistema de Urgencias del Estado   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MORTALITY;

EID: 84938949543     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-015-2997-5     Document Type: Article

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