Association between ambulance dispatch priority and patient condition

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Association between ambulance dispatch priority and patient condition

© 2016 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine.Objective: To compare chief complaints of the Medical Priority Dispatch System in terms of the match between dispatch priority and patient condition. Methods: This was a retrospective whole-of-populati...

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Main Authors:	Ball, Stephen, Williams, Teresa, Smith, K., Cameron, P., Fatovich, D., O'Halloran, Kay, Hendrie, Delia, Whiteside, A., Inoue, Madoka, Brink, D., Langridge, I., Pereira, Gavin, Tohira, Hideo, Chinnery, S., Bray, Janet, Bailey, P., Finn, Judith
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2016
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33740

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