Placing Physician Orders at Triage: The Effect on Length of Stay

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-33

  Russ, Stephan ^a,b   Jones, Ian ^a   Aronsky, Dominik ^a   Dittus, Robert S ^a,b   Slovis, Corey M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; PHYSICIANS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE;

EID: 77953610860     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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