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- Title
Emergency medical services response time and mortality in an urban setting.
- Authors
Blanchard, Ian E; Doig, Christopher J; Hagel, Brent E; Anton, Andrew R; Zygun, David A; Kortbeek, John B; Powell, D Gregory; Williamson, Tyler S; Fick, Gordon H; Innes, Grant D
- Abstract
A common tenet in emergency medical services (EMS) is that faster response equates to better patient outcome, translated by some EMS operations into a goal of a response time of 8 minutes or less for advanced life support (ALS) units responding to life-threatening events.
- Publication
Prehospital emergency care, 2012, Vol 16, Issue 1, p142
- ISSN
1545-0066
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3109/10903127.2011.614046