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- Title
Implementing a nationwide criteria-based emergency medical dispatch system: a register-based follow-up study.
- Authors
Andersen, Mikkel S.; Johnsen, Søren Paaske; Sørensen, Jan Nørtved; Jepsen, Søren Bruun; Hansen, Jesper Bjerring; Christensen, Erika Frischknecht
- Abstract
The article presents a register-based follow up study on the implementation of a nationwide criteria-based emergency medical dispatch system in Denmark. The researchers identified 99,855 contacts to the emergency medical communication centers (EMCC) through the 112 alarm number. The results show that the Danish criteria-based dispatch systems seem to effectively triage patients according to the severity of their condition.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY medical services; MEDICAL communication; PATIENTS; COMMUNICATION; MEDICINE
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation & Emergency Medicine, 2013, Vol 21, Issue Suppl 2, p1
- ISSN
1757-7241
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1757-7241-21-S2-A31