Inpatient mortality as related to triage category in three New South Wales regional base hospitals

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 334-340

  Doherty, Steven R ^a   Hore, Craig T ^a   Curran, Shane W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Emergency; Mortality; Rural; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAGE;

EID: 0042358723     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2026.2003.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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