Establishing scales of perceived severity for clinical situations during anaesthesia

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 339-343

  Walsh, Tanya C ^a   Beatty, P C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Complications, alarms

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIST; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; VALIDATION PROCESS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITALIZATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANESTHESIA; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 24944486866     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aei192     Document Type: Article

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