Interrater agreement between nurses for the pediatric canadian triage and acuity scale in a tertiary care center

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1262-1267

  Gravel, Jocelyn ^a,b   Gouin, Serge ^a,b   Manzano, Sergio ^a,b   Arsenault, Michael ^a,b   Amre, Devendra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Emergency department; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSE; PEDIATRIC CANADIAN TRIAGE AND ACUITY SCALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INFANT; MALE; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRIAGE;

EID: 57349173080     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00268.x     Document Type: Article

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