Introduction Without a universal Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system in India, data on the epidemiology of patients who utilize EMS are limited. This retrospective chart review aimed to quantify and describe the burden of disease and patient demographics of patients who arrived by EMS to four Indian emergency departments (EDs) in order to inform a national EMS curriculum.A retrospective chart review was performed on patients transported by EMS over a three-month period in 2014 to four private EDs in India. A total of 17,541 patient records were sampled from the four sites over the study period. Of these records, 1,723 arrived by EMS and so were included for further review.A range of 1.4

作者：Olindi, Wijesekera；Amanda, Reed；Parker S, Chastain；Shauna, Biggs；Elizabeth G, Clark；Tamorish, Kole；Anoop T, Chakrapani；Nandy, Ashish；Prasad, Rajhans；Alan H, Breaud；Gabrielle A, Jacquet

来源：Prehospital and disaster medicine 2016 年 31卷 6期