Refining emergency severity index triage criteria

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 497-501

  Tanabe, Paula ^a,b   Travers, Debbie ^d   Gilboy, Nicki ^e   Rosenau, Alex ^f   Sierzega, Gina ^f   Rupp, Valerie ^f   Martinovich, Zoran ^c,g   Adams, James G ^a  

^a Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Emergency severity index; Triage

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADENOSINE; CHARCOAL; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; FAMOTIDINE; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; HYDROMORPHONE; LABETALOL; LORAZEPAM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METOPROLOL; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; SALBUTAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CALCULATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SEVERITY INDEX; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEBULIZATION; NURSE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRIAGE;

EID: 19544369520     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.12.015     Document Type: Article

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