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- C Glushak, T R Delbridge, and H G Garrison.
- University of Chicago, IL, USA.
- Prehosp Emerg Care. 1997 Apr 1;1(2):100-3.
AbstractPolicies regarding ambulance diversion are critical to ensuring that EMS providers are aware of appropriate patient destinations, even before patients enter the system. Field EMS personnel should never be requested to prolong transport time intervals to search for an available hospital at the potential expense of patients' conditions and the immediate availability of out-of-hospital emergency care for the community. The responsibility for providing efficient emergency care to the community rests with all those who contribute to EMS structures and processes. All EMS system participants, including hospitals, EMS providers, local and regional lead agencies, and medical oversight authorities, must work together to create comprehensive ambulance diversion policies that satisfactorily meet each other's needs, while maintaining the highest regard for the needs of EMS patients and the entire community.
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