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Limitations Authorship Statement
There are several limitations to this study. This survey was on- GKR performed the data analysis, and all authors contributed
line and completely voluntary, making it potentially susceptible to the study design and manuscript.
to bias. The deployment of this survey was limited to a single
state and utilized a convenience sample, which may affect the Reprints
generalizability of the findings. Only those EMS professionals Reprints are not available from the authors.
actively identified on the roster of an EMS agency were surveyed,
excluding educators, students, military medical and non-medical References
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