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Descriptor English: Ambulance Diversion
Descriptor Spanish: Desvío de Ambulancias
Descriptor desvío de ambulancias
Scope note: Práctica de redirigir ambulancias y pacientes que buscan una atención urgente, de un servicio de urgencias a otro, por diversas razones, como pueda ser un hacinamiento o una escasez de personal cualificado.
Descriptor Portuguese: Desvio de Ambulâncias
Descriptor French: Déroutement d'ambulances
Entry term(s): Ambulance Diversions
Diversion, Ambulance
Diversions, Ambulance
Tree number(s): N02.421.297.879.049
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D064422
Scope note: The practice of redirecting ambulances and patients seeking urgent care from one emergency department to others for various reasons such as overcrowding and shortage of skilled staff.
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 2014
History Note: 2014
DeCS ID: 55457
Unique ID: D064422
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Date Established: 2014/01/01
Date of Entry: 2013/07/08
Revision Date: 2015/06/29
Ambulance Diversion - Preferred
Concept UI M0581812
Scope note The practice of redirecting ambulances and patients seeking urgent care from one emergency department to others for various reasons such as overcrowding and shortage of skilled staff.
Preferred term Ambulance Diversion
Entry term(s) Ambulance Diversions
Diversion, Ambulance
Diversions, Ambulance



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