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Accuracy of emergency medical service telephone triage of need for an ambulance response in suspected COVID-19: An observational cohort study

2021-10-19

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<h4>Background</h4> Emergency Medical Services (EMS) have experienced surges in demand as the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed with ambulances services in the UK declaring major incidents due to the risk of care being compromised. COVID-19 specific EMS telephone triage tools have been introduced to help manage demand. There has been no previous evaluation of the accuracy of EMS telephone triage in identifying pati...

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DOI: 10.1101/2021.10.12.21264136

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