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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

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  • Carl Marincowitz Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research (CURE), Health Services Research School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tony Stone Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research (CURE), Health Services Research School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Madina Hasan Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research (CURE), Health Services Research School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Richard Campbell Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research (CURE), Health Services Research School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter A Bath Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research (CURE), Health Services Research School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Centre for Health Information Management Research (CHIMR) and Health Informatics Research Group, Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Janette Turner Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research (CURE), Health Services Research School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Richard Pilbery Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Wakefield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Benjamin David Thomas Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU), Health Services Research School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laura Sutton Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU), Health Services Research School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Fiona Bell Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Wakefield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Katie Biggs Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU), Health Services Research School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Frank Hopfgartner Centre for Health Information Management Research (CHIMR) and Health Informatics Research Group, Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Suvodeep Mazumdar Centre for Health Information Management Research (CHIMR) and Health Informatics Research Group, Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jennifer Petrie Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU), Health Services Research School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Steve Goodacre Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research (CURE), Health Services Research School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Benjamin David Thomas; b.d.thomas{at}sheffield.ac.uk
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Marincowitz C, Stone T, Hasan M, et al
Accuracy of emergency medical service telephone triage of need for an ambulance response in suspected COVID-19: an observational cohort study

Publication history

  • Received October 29, 2021
  • Accepted April 22, 2022
  • First published May 16, 2022.
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May 16, 2022
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