'Tell me exactly what's happened': when linguistic choices affect the efficiency of emergency calls for cardiac arrest.

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'Tell me exactly what's happened': when linguistic choices affect the efficiency of emergency calls for cardiac arrest.

Background: Clear and efficient communication between emergency caller and call-taker is crucial to timely ambulance dispatch. We aimed to explore the impact of linguistic variation in the delivery of the prompt "okay, tell me exactly what happened" on the way callers describe the emergenc...

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Main Authors:	Riou, Marine, Ball, Stephen, Williams, Teresa, Whiteside, Austin, O'Halloran, Kay, Bray, Janet, Perkins, G., Smith, K., Cameron, P., Fatovich, Daniel, Inoue, Madoka, Bailey, Paul, Brink, D., Finn, Judith
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier 2017
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53689

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