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Identifying quality indicators for prehospital emergency care services in the low to middle income setting: The South African perspective

INTRODUCTION: Historically, performance within the Prehospital Emergency Care (PEC) setting has been assessed primarily based on response times. While easy to measure and valued by the public, overall, response time targets are a poor predictor of quality of care and clinical outcomes. Over the last...

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Autores principales:	Howard, Ian, Cameron, Peter, Wallis, Lee, Castrén, Maaret, Lindström, Veronica
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2019
Materias:	Original article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6933208/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31890482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2019.07.003

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