The “Vertical Response Time”: Barriers to Ambulance Response in an Urban Area
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The "vertical response time": barriers to ambulance response in an urban area.
BACKGROUND Ambulance response time is typically reported as the time interval from call dispatch to arrival on-scene. However, the often unmeasured "vertical response time" from arrival on-scene to arrival at the patient's side may be substantial, particularly in urban areas with high-rise buildings or other barriers to access. OBJECTIVES To measure the time interval from arrival on-scene to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1069-6563,1553-2712
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2007.tb02350.x