Injury
Volume 38, Issue 9 , Pages 1001-1013 , September 2007

Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems in developed and developing countries

  • Bahman S. Roudsari

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas, School of Public Health, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 214 648 1054; fax: +1 214 648 1081.
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  • Avery B. Nathens

      Affiliations

    • St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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  • Carlos Arreola-Risa

      Affiliations

    • Secretaría de Salud, Sistema Estatal de Atención de Emergencias Médicas, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
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  • Peter Cameron

      Affiliations

    • Department Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash School of Public Health, Alfred Hospital, Australia
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  • Ian Civil

      Affiliations

    • University of Auckland, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
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  • Giouli Grigoriou

      Affiliations

    • Center for Research and Prevention of Injuries, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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  • Russel L. Gruen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Services Research and Policy, Menzies School of Health Research, Australia
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  • Thomas D. Koepsell

      Affiliations

    • Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
    • Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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  • Fiona E. Lecky

      Affiliations

    • University of Manchester, Department of Emergency Medicine, Manchester, United kingdom
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  • Rolf L. Lefering

      Affiliations

    • Biochemical & Experimental Division, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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  • Moishe Liberman

      Affiliations

    • Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Divisions of Surgery and Clinical Epidemiology, Montreal, Canada
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  • Charles N. Mock

      Affiliations

    • Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
    • Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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  • Hans-Jörg Oestern

      Affiliations

    • Chefarzt der Klinik für, Unfall und Wiederherstellungschirurgie, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Celle, Germany
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  • Elenie Petridou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece
    • Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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  • Thomas A. Schildhauer

      Affiliations

    • Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, BG Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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  • Christian Waydhas

      Affiliations

    • Klinik und Poliklinik für Unfallchirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Hufelandstr. Germany
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  • Moosa Zargar

      Affiliations

    • Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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  • Frederick P. Rivara

      Affiliations

    • Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
    • Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

,Accepted 10 April 2007.

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PII: S0020-1383(07)00167-2

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2007.04.008

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