Nurse telephone triage: Good quality associated with appropriate decisions

Family Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 547-552

  Huibers, L ^a   Keizer, E ^a   Giesen, P ^a   Grol, R ^a   Wensing, M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

After hours; Nursing; Primary health care; Telephone; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; TELECONSULTATION;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; DECISION MAKING; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TAPE RECORDING; TELEPHONE; TRIAGE;

EID: 84867116165     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cms005     Document Type: Article

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