Night admission to the emergency department: A factor delaying time to surgery in patients with head injury

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 19-20, 2010, Pages 2763-2770

  Kim, Young Ju ^a  

^a Sungshin Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Admission; Head injury; Night; Nurses; Nursing; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROSURGERY; NURSE ATTITUDE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROSURGERY; NURSE'S ROLE; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956825655     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.03024.x     Document Type: Article

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