Medication history taking in emergency department triage is inaccurate and incomplete

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 102-104

  Mazer, Maryann ^a   Deroos, Francis ^a   Hollander, Judd E ^a   McCusker, Christine ^a   Peacock, Nicholas ^a   Perrone, Jeanmarie ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICATION ERROR; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAGE;

EID: 78651365263     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00959.x     Document Type: Article

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