Emergency medical system

...After that, emergency medical centers with advanced medical care functions capable of treating seriously injured patients such as those with brain trauma were established in areas with a high incidence of traffic accidents, and at a rate of about one for every 1 million people. Furthermore, the proportion of internal medicine and pediatric patients increased, and in 1976 the Ministry of Health and Welfare began to develop an emergency medical system and an emergency medical information system. This emergency medical system is made up of three levels, with holiday and nighttime emergency centers established in cities with populations of 50,000 or more as primary emergency medical facilities responsible for emergency medical care for those with minor injuries, and a system of doctors on call at home established at the county or city medical association level. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "emergency medical system" is listed below.

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…その後，脳外傷等の重症患者を治療することができる高度の診療機能をもつ救急医療センターが，交通事故多発地域および人口100万に1ヵ所程度の割合で各地に整備された。さらに，内科･小児科系患者の比率が増し，76年から厚生省は，救急医療体系および救急医療情報システムの整備を図っている。　この救急医療体系とは3次からなり，軽症者のための救急医療を担当する第1次救急医療施設として，原則人口5万以上の市に，休日･夜間急患センターを整備し，また，郡市医師会単位で在宅当番医制を設けている。…

※「救急医療体系」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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