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Ten years of EMS Fall Calls in a Community: An Opportunity for Injury Prevention Strategies
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether fall calls, lift assists, and need for transport to the hospital over the past 10 years in one emergency medical services (EMS) system have altered coincident with demographic changes and to estimate health-care cost for lift assists. METHODS: We conducted a retrospec...
Autores principales: | Quatman, Carmen E., Mondor, Michael, Halweg, Jodi, Switzer, Julie A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6041994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30013811 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2151459318783453 |
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