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Initial prehospital vital signs to predict subsequent adverse hospital outcomes

Williams, T.A.
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Ho, K.M.
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Tohira, H.
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Fatovich, D.M.
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Bailey, P.
; 
Brink, D.
; ; ; 
Finn, Judith
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Emergency Medical Services
 Pre-hospital
 Vital Signs
 Treatment Outcome
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BMJ Open
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/1182
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10.1136/bmjopen-2017-EMSabstracts.14
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There is growing interest to improve identification of the critically ill patient in the prehospital setting.1–3 We aimed to assess whether initial vital physiological signs in the prehospital setting can predict subsequent adverse hospital outcomes, defined as intensive care (ICU) admission or death in the emergency department (ED). https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/Suppl_3/A5.3 This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-EMSabstracts.14
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