Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 484-491 , April 1997

Patient-Specific Predictors of Ambulance Use

Abstract presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, San Antonio, May 1995.

Received 22 April 1996 ,Revised 31 October 1996 ,Accepted 12 November 1996.

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☆ From the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center*; Harvard University School of Public Health‡; the Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital§; and Partners HealthCare System∥, Boston, Massachusetts.

☆☆ Partially sponsored by the Risk Management Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 484-491 , April 1997

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