Emergency severity index triage system correlation with emergency department evaluation and management billing codes and total professional charges

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1161-1166

  Wiler, Jennifer L ^a,b   Poirier, Robert F ^b   Farley, Heather ^c   Zirkin, William ^d   Griffey, Richard T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY SEVERITY INDEX; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT BILLING CODE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BILLING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW;

EID: 81755162038     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01203.x     Document Type: Review

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