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Increasing emergency number utilisation is not driven by low-acuity calls: an observational study of 1.5 million emergency calls (2018–2021) from Berlin

BACKGROUND: The Emergency Medical Service (EMS) in Germany is increasingly challenged by strongly rising demand. Speculations about a greater utilisation for minor cases have led to intensive media coverage, but empirical evidence is lacking. We investigated the development of low-acuity calls from...

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Autores principales: Herr, David, Bhatia, Sangeeta, Breuer, Florian, Poloczek, Stefan, Pommerenke, Christopher, Dahmen, Janosch
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10186279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37193989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-02879-7