Towards a partnership in care: Nurses' and doctors' interpretation of extremity trauma radiology

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 890-896

  Overton Brown, Pat ^a   Anthony, Dennis ^b  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accident and emergency; Casualty officer; Nurse practitioner; Nursing diagnosis; Radiology; Receiver operating characteristic; Sensitivity; Specificity; X rays

Indexed keywords

ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING; PHYSICIAN; RADIOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARM INJURIES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; RADIOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032062029     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.t01-1-00565.x     Document Type: Article

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