Suitability of emergency department attenders to be assessed in primary care: Survey of general practitioner agreement in a random sample of triage records analysed in a service evaluation project

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Thompson, Mary I W ^a   Lasserson, Daniel ^b   McCann, Lloyd ^c   Thompson, Matthew ^b,d   Heneghan, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MercyAscot and Mercy Radiology   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSENSUS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION STUDY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84890823087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003612     Document Type: Article

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