Repeated ambulance use by patients with acute alcohol intoxication, seizure disorder, and respiratory illness☆
Jennifer Brokaw, MD
, Lenora Olson
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- Address reprint requests to Ms Olson, Department of Emergency Medicine, UNM School of Medicine, Ambulatory Care Center 4-W, Albuquerque, NM 87131-5246.
Lynne Fullerton, MA
, Dan Tandberg, MD
, David Sklar, MD
From the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albuquerque, NM. USA
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☆Presented in part at the 123rd APHA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 1995.
☆Supported in part by Albuquerque Ambulance Services, Albuquerque, NM.
© 1998 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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