The acute sick and injured patients: An overview of the emergency department patient population at a norwegian university hospital emergency department

European Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 175-180

  Langlo, Nina M F ^a   Orvik, Astrid B ^a   Dale, Jostein ^b   Uleberg, Oddvar ^b,c   Bjørnsen, Lars P ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Norway)

Author keywords

emergency admissions; emergency department; emergency medicine; Norway; patient population

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; INJURY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF PRIMARY CARE 2; LEG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THIGH; THORAX PAIN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERTIGO; ABDOMEN, ACUTE; CHEST PAIN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOLLOW UP; INJURY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NORWAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEST PAIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NORWAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84899794484     PISSN: 09699546     EISSN: 14735695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEJ.0b013e3283629c18     Document Type: Article

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