Young people's experience of emergency medical services as road traffic accident victims: A pilot qualitative study

Journal of Child Health Care

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 301-311

  Salter, Emma ^a   Stallard, Paul ^a  

^a AVON AND WILTSHIRE MENTAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accident and emergency; Adolescents; Road traffic accidents

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LONELINESS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PAIN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PAIN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PILOT PROJECTS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 16644380341     PISSN: 13674935     EISSN: 17412889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367493504047320     Document Type: Article

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