Factors Influencing Patient Assignment to Level 2 and Level 3 Within the 5-Level ESI Triage System

Journal of Emergency Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 526-532

  Garbez, Roxanne ^a   Carrieri Kohlman, Virginia ^a   Stotts, Nancy ^a   Chan, Garrett ^a   Neighbor, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; ED nursing; Emergency Severity Index; Triage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRIAGE;

EID: 80955155651     PISSN: 00991767     EISSN: 15272966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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