Critical appraisal of papers describing triage systems

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1166-1171

  Hardern, Richard D ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency service; Evidence based medicine; Hospital; Reproducibility of results; Triage

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032730573     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1999.tb00121.x     Document Type: Review

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