Targeted response? An exploration of why ambulance services find government targets particularly challenging
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Why the closest ambulance cannot be dispatched in an urban emergency medical services system.
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عنوان ژورنال: British Medical Bulletin
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0007-1420,1471-8391
DOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldw047