Response Time Effectiveness:Comparison of Response Time and Survival in an Urban Emergency Medical Services System
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Response time effectiveness: comparison of response time and survival in an urban emergency medical services system.
UNLABELLED Emergency medical services (EMS) administrators seek methods to enhance system performance. One component scrutinized is the response time (RT) interval between call receipt and arrival on scene. While reducing RTs may improve survival, this remains speculative and unreported. OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of current RTs on survival in an urban EMS system. METHODS The study w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1069-6563,1553-2712
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.4.288