Emergency severity index triage category is associated with six-month survival

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 61-64

  Wuerz, R ^a   Eitel, D ^b   Gilboy, N ^b   Larson, R ^b   Morley, K ^b   Nestor, B ^b   Rosenau, A ^b   Travers, D ^b  

^a Office of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

^b YORK HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency service; Hospital; Nursing protocols; Severity index; Survival; Triage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRIAGE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0035181755     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb00554.x     Document Type: Article

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