Emergency department triage of patients infected with HIV

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 880-888

  Haukoos, Jason S ^a   Witt, Mallory D ^a   Zeumer, Christel M ^a   Lee, Thomas J ^a   Halamka, John D ^a   Lewis, Roger J ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision rule; Clinical Triage Instrument; HIV; Illness Severity Instrument; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION TREES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRIAGE;

EID: 0036714641     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.9.880     Document Type: Article

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