Impact of emergency department volume on registered nurse time at the bedside

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 481-489

  Hobgood, Cherri ^a   Villani, John ^a   Quattlebaum, Robert ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME MANAGEMENT; TRIAGE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 27944501529     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.07.014     Document Type: Article

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