DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF 18 PROVEN HIGHWAY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SYSTEMS - VOLUME 1

A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY A RANGE OF NATIONWIDE WORKING SOLUTIONS TO THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PROBLEM, AND TO INVESTIGATE HOW SEVERAL COMMUNITIES EVOLVED THEIR APPROACHES TO PROVIDING ADEQUATE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. EACH OF THE CASE STUDIES DIVIDES THE INFORMATION OBTAINED INTO FOUR MAJOR SECTIONS: AREA PROFILE; BACKGROUND OF THE SYSTEM AND THE PROCESS OF CHANGE; PRESENT SYSTEM; AND EFFECTIVENESS OF PRESENT SYSTEM. EACH STUDY INCLUDES SUCH DESCRIPTIVE ELEMENTS AS FINANCIAL PLAN, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, PROCEDURES, PERSONNEL AND TRAINING, VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT, AND COMMUNICATIONS, DISPATCHING AND COORDINATING. /SRIS/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 200 Pp, 42 TAB
• Corporate Authors:

  National Assoc Counties Res Fdn

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• Authors:
  • Cooper, C
• Publication Date: 1968

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Communications; Communities; Disasters and emergency operations; Emergency vehicles; Equipment; Finance; Hazards and emergency operations; Highways; Medical services; Organizations; Programming (Planning); Training
• Old TRIS Terms: Financial programming
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00220640
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Nat Safety Council Safety Res Info Serv
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 15 1971 12:00AM