Emergency department Communication Officer: Response to consumer demand

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 18, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 464-470

  Meek, Robert ^a   Torsello, Sarah ^a  

^a DANDENONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Emergency medicine; Information dissemination; Patient satisfaction; Videotape

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL; CONSUMER; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING; WAITING ROOM;

ADULT; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33750433544     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2006.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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