Impact of the ABCDE triage on the number of patient visits to the emergency department

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kantonen, Jarmo ^a,b   Kaartinen, Johanna ^c   Mattila, Juho ^d   Menezes, Ricardo ^e   Malmila, Mia ^a   Castren, Maaret ^e   Kauppila, Timo ^a,b,f  

^a Attendo Medone LTD ^*  (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d JORVI HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f City of Vantaa   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FINLAND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FINLAND; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE;

EID: 77952973637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-10-12     Document Type: Article

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