Abstract
Although arrival by ambulance was associated with a higher level of care, a prominent proportion of patients with suspected stroke are not arriving by ambulance to the ED.
Keywords
Emergency departmentMedicineAmbulatoryEmergency medical servicesTriageMedical emergencyPublic transportEmergency medicineStroke (engine)Public healthTransport engineeringInternal medicine
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- 2008
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 83-6
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- 40
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Yousef Mohammad
(2008).
Mode of arrival to the emergency department of stroke patients in the United States..
PubMed
, 1
(3)
, 83-6.