Emergency Medical Services
Subfield
Description: type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care and transport to definitive care
Alternate names EMS, 馃殤
Topics (children) Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis, Dental Trauma and Treatments, Disaster Response and Management, Global Health Workforce Issues, Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization +2 more
Related subfields (siblings) Complementary and Manual Therapy, General Health Professions, Health Information Management, Medical Laboratory Technology, Medical Terminology +5 more
Field (parent): Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Works count: 449,000
Citations count: 3,211,000
To Err Is Human
2000 路 Institute of Medicine 路 National Academies Press eBooks
Unequal treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care
2003 路 A. L. Nelson 路 Choice Reviews Online
Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world
2010 路 Julio Frenk, Lincoln Chen, et al. 路 The Lancet