Photograph documentation of motor vehicle damage by EMTs at the scene: A prospective multicenter study in the United States☆
Richard C Hunt
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- From the Department of Emergency Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, USA
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Richard C Hunt
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Theodore W Whitley
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E.Jackson Allison Jr
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- From the Department of Emergency Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, USA
Richard V Aghababian
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- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA
Jon R Krohmer
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- Kent County Emergency Medical Services and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Fred Landes
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John B McCabe
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- the Department of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York at Syracuse, Syracuse, NY. USA
N.Heramba Prasad
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Elaine S Cabinum
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Elaine S Cabinum
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☆Supported in part by the Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA.
☆Presented at the International Conference on Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: “Global Perspectives,” Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, October 1992.
© 1997 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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