The Use of and Satisfaction with the Emergency Severity Index

Journal of Emergency Nursing

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-126

  Singer, Rachel Friedman ^a,b   Infante, Alycia A ^a,b   Oppenheimer, Caitlin C ^a,b   West, Catherine A ^a,b   Siegel, Bruce ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5 level triage; Emergency severity index; ESI; Triage

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ALGORITHMS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRIAGE;

EID: 84857918060     PISSN: 00991767     EISSN: 15272966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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