Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 40, Issue 6 , Pages 625-632, December 2002

Occupational fatalities in emergency medical services: A hidden crisis

Presented at the National Occupational Injury Research Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2000, and the New York State Vital Signs Conference, Albany, NY, October 2001.

Department of Emergency Health Services, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD (Maguire); the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC (Hunting); the Center for Safety Research, Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety and Health, Hopkinton, MA (Smith); and Harlem Hospital, Columbia University, New York, NY (Levick)

Received 19 June 2001; received in revised form 15 March 2002, 12 April 2002 and 31 May 2002; accepted 24 June 2002.

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 Address for reprints: Brian J. Maguire, MSA, EMT-P, Department of Emergency Health Services, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250; 410-455-3778,fax 410-455-3045; E-mail maguire@umbc.edu

PII: S0196-0644(02)00661-3

doi:10.1067/mem.2002.128681

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