Validation of triage criteria for deciding which apparently inebriated persons require emergency department care

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 579-584

  Flower, Keith ^a   Post, Anneke ^a   Sussman, Jeremy ^b   Tangherlini, Niels ^c   Mendelson, John ^a   Pletcher, Mark J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c San Francisco Fire Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; CONSULTATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIAGE;

EID: 79959582350     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.089763     Document Type: Article

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