Validity of telephone and physical triage in emergency care: The Netherlands Triage System

Family Practice

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 334-341

  van Ierland, Yvette ^a   van Veen, Mirjam ^a   Huibers, Linda ^b   Giesen, Paul ^b   Moll, Henriëtte A ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adult; Children; Emergency medicine; Epidemiology; Family medicine; Practice management; Triage; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT REFERRAL; SELF CARE; TELEPHONE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 79957529327     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmq097     Document Type: Article

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