Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • Public Perceptions of a Rural Emergency Medical Services System

  • Lawrence H. Brown, N. Heramba Prasad, Kirk Grimmer
  • Journal:
    Prehospital and Disaster Medicine / Volume 9 / Issue 4 / December 1994
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 June 2012, pp. 257-259
    Print publication:
    December 1994
  • Introduction:

    To determine the awareness of citizens and physicians concerning the capabilities of a rural emergency medical services (EMS) system.

    Hypothesis:

    Citizens and physicians are unaware of the capabilities of the EMS system.

    Methods:

    Residents were selected randomly from the local telephone directory and asked a series of structured questions about their EMS agency. A written survey was distributed to area physicians. Chi-square analysis was used to compare the proportion of respondents who knew the available interventions in their community with the proportion of those who did not. Statistical significance was inferred at p <0.01.

    Results:

    A total of 49% of the citizens were able to identify available skills, and 41.4% of the physicians were able to identify available skills. Physicians were less likely than were the citizens to be able to identify the skills performed by each provider (p <0.001).

    Conclusion:

    This study indicates that both physicians and the lay public have little understanding of the capabilities of their EMS system.