Analysis of triage worldwide

Emergency Nurse

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 16-19

  Lähdet, Eric Fortes ^a   Suserud, Bjorn Ove ^b   Jonsson, Anders ^b   Lundberg, Lars ^c  

^a QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Department of Tourism   (Norway)

^c Swedish Armed Forces Centre for Defence Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

Military triage; Triage methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; CANADA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EUROPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MILITARY NURSING; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; AUSTRALASIA; CANADA; EUROPE; HUMANS; MILITARY NURSING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRIAGE;

EID: 70349258316     PISSN: 13545752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7748/en2009.07.17.4.16.c7122     Document Type: Review

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