Transporting clinical tools to new settings: Cultural adaptation and validation of the emergency severity index in German

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 257-264

  Grossmann, Florian F ^a   Nickel, Christian H ^a   Christ, Michael ^b   Schneider, Kristian ^a   Spirig, Rebecca ^c,d   Bingisser, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Municipal Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY SEVERITY INDEX; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LANGUAGE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SURVIVAL; SWITZERLAND; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URBAN AREA; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CULTURE; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSLATING; TRIAGE;

EID: 79952037257     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.07.021     Document Type: Article

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