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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2026

A Retrospective Analysis of Nearly 3,000,000 Non-COVID-19 Mid- and High-Priority Ambulance Activations Before and During COVID-19: A National Study from Saudi Arabia.

Saeed A Alqahtani, Talal M Alshammari, Abdullah M Alshamrani, Tariq L Alshabaani, Tarek M Esmael, Asif A Mahmood, Abdulmajeed A Alamri, Ahmed A Alshamrani, Nawaf H Alshaye, Abdulatif S Alamri and 5 more

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors.

Saeed A AlqahtaniDepartment of Emergency Medical Services, Arabian Gulf University, Manama P.O. Box 26671, Bahrain.ORCID 0000-0003-4077-6455
Talal M AlshammariDepartment of Emergency Medical Care, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-5643-1075
Abdullah M AlshamraniDepartment of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran 34313, Saudi Arabia.
Tariq L AlshabaaniDepartment of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran 34313, Saudi Arabia.
Tarek M EsmaelDepartment of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran 34313, Saudi Arabia.
Asif A MahmoodDepartment of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran 34313, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0009-0004-9122-0515
Abdulmajeed A AlamriDepartment of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran 34313, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed A AlshamraniDepartment of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran 34313, Saudi Arabia.
Nawaf H AlshayeDepartment of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran 34313, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulatif S AlamriDepartment of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran 34313, Saudi Arabia.
Salem R AldossaryDepartment of Emergency Medical Care, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.
Yousef M AlsofayanDepartment of Medical Affairs, Saudi Red Crescent Authority, Riyadh 11129, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-7028-7930
Fahad S AlhajjajDirectorate of Medical Research, Saudi Red Crescent Authority, Riyadh 11129, Saudi Arabia.
Jawaher M AlkhaldiDirectorate of Military Medical Services, Ministry of Defense, Riyadh 11159, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmad A AlrawashdehDepartment of Allied Medical Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan.

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ambulance callCOVID-19EMSSaudi ArabiaSRCA

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PMID42793644
PMCPMC13606508

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