The Barbados Emergency Ambulance Service: High Frequency of Nontransported Calls

Objectives. There are no published studies on the Barbados Emergency Ambulance Service and no assessment of the calls that end in nontransported individuals. We describe reasons for the nontransport of potential clients. Methods. We used the Emergency Medical Dispatch (Medical Priority Dispatch Syst...

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Main Authors: Sherwin E. Phillips, Pamela S. Gaskin, David Byer, W. L. Cadogan, Andrew Brathwaite, Anders L. Nielsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Emergency Medicine International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/659392