Handover from paramedics: Observations and emergency department clinician perceptions

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-155

  Yong, Guohao ^a,b   Dent, Andrew W ^a,b   Weiland, Tracey J ^a,b  

^a Emergency Practice Innovation Centre   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Handover; Paramedic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX PAIN;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 41549092297     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2007.01035.x     Document Type: Article

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