The quality of psychiatric services provided by an Australian tertiary hospital emergency department: A client perspective

Accident and Emergency Nursing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 205-213

  Summers, Monica ^a   Happell, Brenda ^b  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; STANDARD; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TRIAGE; VICTORIA;

EID: 0036825206     PISSN: 09652302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-2302(02)00158-3     Document Type: Article

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