Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 47, Issue 6 , Pages 515-524 , June 2006

Economic Value of Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care: A Structured Literature Review

Presented at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Emergencies, June 2005, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

  • E. Brooke Lerner, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: E. Brooke Lerner, PhD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 655, Rochester, NY 14642; 585-273-1468, fax 585-473-3516
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  • Ronald F. Maio, DO, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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  • Herbert G. Garrison, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
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  • Daniel W. Spaite, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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  • Graham Nichol, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Washington–Harborview Center for Prehospital Emergency Care and Emergency Services, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Received 9 November 2005 ,Revised 5 January 2006 ,Accepted 6 January 2006.

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    Method of categorizing full economic evaluations and partial evaluations. By permission of Oxford University Press. Adapted from Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Healthcare Programmes, 2nd editi

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 Supervising editor: Donald M. Yealy, MD

 Funding and support: This work was funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration through Cooperative Agreement DTNH22-98-H-05117 awarded to the National Association of State EMS Directors. The sponsor played no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.

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PII: S0196-0644(06)00069-2

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.01.012

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 47, Issue 6 , Pages 515-524 , June 2006

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