Manchester triage system in paediatric emergency care

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7673, 2008, Pages 767-768

  Maconochie, Ian ^a   Dawood, Mary ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; CHILD; NOTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEDIATRICS;

CHILD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; TRIAGE;

EID: 53649105576     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a1507     Document Type: Editorial

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