Can nurses screen all outpatients? Performance of a nurse based model

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1117-1121

  Vaghadia, Himat ^a,b   Fowler, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MODEL; NURSING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033387730     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03015518     Document Type: Article

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