Importance of emergency identification schemes

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 584-586

  Morton, L ^a   Murad, S ^a   Omar, R Z ^b   Taylor, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGY; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FATALITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEART DISEASE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STAFF; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0036848866     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.19.6.584     Document Type: Article

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