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Is the emergency ambulance service abused?

Abstract

Analysis of 1000 consecutive patients brought to the accident and emergency department of a busy district general hospital by ambulance after emergency "999" telephone calls showed that 51.7% of these journeys were unnecessary. Medical cases accounted for a greater percentage of necessary calls than did trauma and surgical cases. Medical education of the public is essential if the number of these calls is to be cut.

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Year: 1980 PMID： 7427211 PMCID： PMC1713587 DOI： 10.1136/bmj.281.6233.121

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br Med J ISSN： 0007-1447

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