Reliability and validity of the Manchester Triage System a general emergency department patient population in the Netherlands: Results of a simulation study

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 431-434

  van der Wulp, I ^a   van Baar, M E ^a   Schrijvers, A J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MANCHESTER TRIAGE SYSTEM; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; WORK EXPERIENCE;

EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRIAGE;

EID: 47349133333     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.055228     Document Type: Article

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